.. _indexing-ref:

Full-text Search
----------------

RhodeCode provides a full text search capabilities to search inside file content,
commit message, and file paths (This feature is only available in Enterprise edition).
Indexing is not enabled by default and to use full text search building an index is a pre-requisite.

|RCE| provides support for `ElasticSearch 8`_ as a backend to index |repos|.
See :ref:`enable-elasticsearch` for details.

.. note::

    For comprehensive full-text search documentation including ElasticSearch setup, 
    auth token generation, advanced mapping configuration, and deployment-specific instructions,
    see the :ref:`Full-text Search Setup Guide <rcstack:full-text-search-setup>`.



.. _ElasticSearch 8: https://www.elastic.co/
