Automate index creation when enabling Elasticsearch integration
requested to merge 239270-remove-the-need-to-run-rake-tasks-to-create-index-when-enabling-elasticsearch-integration into master
What does this MR do?
Issue #239270 (closed)
Automatically create an empty Elasticsearch index if one doesn't exist before updating Advanced Search settings.
Minor update to the settings UI to alert the user that an empty index will be created if one doesn't exist.
Documentation has been updated to reflect new instructions on how to enable Advanced Search + what the Enable Elasticsearch Indexing
checkbox option now does.
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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?
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- [-] Informed Infrastructure department of a default or new setting change, if applicable per definition of done
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Edited by Terri Chu