Hi Sean

You can clear your find Index and then maybe try something like this to decide on whether or not a piece of content should be Indexed.

    [InitializableModule]
    [ModuleDependency(typeof(EPiServer.Find.FindInitializationModule))]
    public class FindConfigurationModule : IConfigurableModule
    {
        public void Initialize(InitializationEngine context)
        {
            EPiServer.Find.Cms.ContentIndexer
            .Instance.Conventions.ForInstancesOf<TType>()
            .ShouldIndex(t => true);
        }
      //....
     }

EpiFind's index service is continiously running and (re)indexing your content during runtime. 

So in answer to your question, no, it's not as straightforward as removing it from a database table.

Even if you did find a way to manipulate the data within the index and remove it manually, it will just reindex and the limit threshold within your find license will be breached again.

You can, however, do it from code. 

See the documentation here: https://world.episerver.com/documentation/developer-guides/find/NET-Client-API/Deleting-documents/ 

Just be warey though that the content will reindex for the reasons mentioned above, so you need to also ensure that you explicitlity configure find to exclude the content type from the index, as shown in the example above. There are some more detailed examples in Henrik Fransas's blog post here: https://world.episerver.com/blogs/Henrik-Fransas/Dates/2015/5/adding-episerver-find-to-alloy---part-2/ 

Hi Sean

Are you running DXC Service? If so then you can contact your customer success manager and request a development index which should match the production one which means you shouldn't need to use the free indexes. 

David

Thanks for the responses, I will try to apply the above to our solution. David, unfortunately I don't have a Production Find Index, I'm trying to setup a local example to query the sample Find index, but running into issues related to the index being exceeded, and stuck in the migration phase due to it having too many documents.

Hi Sean

I think David is saying contact Episerver customer service and ask for development index that is as big as production (they might give you for limited time use)

Episerver would not give you production index key but you can login to azure portal and use INT find index (it is unlimited as well) and test it with your local envoirnment.