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# Enable automatic stop words for a table

# Enable automatic stop words for a table {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Xanadu
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* Updated August 1, 2024
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

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 AllSystem DefinitionText 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](https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=community_blog&sys_id=83bc6e25dbd0dbc01dcaf3231f961963&view_source=searchResult) 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 <var class="keyword varname">Index but do not Query</var> and inserts a Comment to indicate that the stop word was
generated automatically.
**Related tasks**   

* [Configure a global stop word](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/o2QbhMpcWFORXMk0Rwyv5w "Configure stop words that shouldn't be indexed by the search.")
* [Configure a table-specific stop word](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/z92qd5WbezsSVZ03blWkSg "You can configure stop words for a specific table.")
* [Disable a stop word in Zing](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/C03J3kfC__C7eVWzO1VBqw "Configure Zing to return results for text search terms that match a stop word's stemmed form.")

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