.. include:: /Includes.rst.txt .. _indexing-files-separately: Indexing files on pages separately ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If enabled, links to local files found on pages will initiate indexing of those external files. However, this often has the unpleasant effect that too many files are indexed during the same page request. Using the crawler extension you can configure the indexer to add a queue entry instead of immediately indexing external files. Thus the indexing will happen outside the frontend user request, using the cronscript! This behaviour is configured in the extension managers configuration for "Indexed search": .. figure:: ../../Images/CrawlerForLinkedFiles.png :alt: Set crawler for linked files Setting the crawler to be used for linked files