What is the difference b/w V3 and V4 text index

[abhi555]

What is the advantage of upgrading text index to V4 Format and how does it impact in terms of search criteria ?

Will there be any differences in search mechanism ?

[Maik Skoddow]

Having a look on page https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/paris-platform-administration/page/administer/search-administrati... that text searching across multiple tables is only possible with upgrading to V4. 

On page https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/paris-platform-administration/page/administer/search-administrati... you can see, that a few new capabilities have been added with version V4. So there are no general differences in search mechanism but some fine-granular enhancements for V4.

Searching across multiple table can also now be invoked via scripts as shown on https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/paris-application-development/page/script/server-scripting/concep...

And consider the following hint: "Upgrading from V3 to V4 is easy. Downgrading from V4 to V3 is more difficult and discouraged."

[Maik Skoddow]

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Kind regards
Maik

[dhananjay21]

Hi @Maik Skoddow  Can you please let me know how can we Downgrade from V4 to V3