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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Enable automatic stop words for a table

The system can identify and generate stop words when a search term exceeds an occurrence threshold.

Before you begin

Enable text indexing for the table.

Role required: ts_admin or admin

About this task

By default, the TS Index Stats scheduled job identifies and creates stop words for tables with text indexes on a nightly basis. Automatically adding stop words improves your search results by removing search terms that return too many search results.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > System Definition > Text Indexes.

  2. Open the text index entry for the table.

  3. Select the Auto stop check box.

  4. In Auto threshold, enter the maximum number of occurrences a search term can have in search results.

    When a search term generates more search results than the threshold, the system automatically creates a stop word for the search term.

    For example, to create stop words for the task table, see the blog post Configuring auto stop words and regenerating text indexes from a ServiceNow employee on the ServiceNow Community.

  5. Select Update.

Result

The job identifies and creates stop words for the table with a Stop mode value of Index but do not Query and inserts a Comment to indicate that the stop word was generated automatically.

Parent Topic:Zing removes stop words from queries

Related topics

Configure a global stop word

Configure a table-specific stop word

Disable a stop word in Zing