# RebuildIndex failed through admin interface
**URL:** https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/rebuildindex-failed-through-admin-interface/1347
**Category:** Users
**Created:** [March 15, 2017, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/rebuildindex-failed-through-admin-interface/1347 "2017-03-15T06:31:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Rader](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/Rader)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2017, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/rebuildindex-failed-through-admin-interface/1347/1 "2017-03-15T06:31:03Z")
I try to build index for field “name” through the admin interface:
> [http://localhost:8080/admin/index?attr=name](http://localhost:8080/admin/index?attr=name)
and get this error,
> {“code”:“Attribute name is indexed”,“message”:“RebuildIndex failed.”}
Actually “name” is not indexed, as if I do query
```auto
query{
it(func:allofterms(name,"bob"))
{
name
boss_of{
name
}
friend{
name
}
}
}
```
Dgraph will report the filed `name` is not indexed. What could be the problem?
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### Author:  [@ashwin95r](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/ashwin95r)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2017, 6:39am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/rebuildindex-failed-through-admin-interface/1347/2 "2017-03-15T06:39:10Z")
Maybe your schema file does not have `name:string @index` field. Can you please share the schema file? @Rader
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### Author:  [@Rader](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/Rader)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2017, 6:46am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/rebuildindex-failed-through-admin-interface/1347/3 "2017-03-15T06:46:33Z")
I don’t load a schema. So I think maybe I can build the index through admin UI. Currently, it looks like the `/admin/index` is not built for creating index. Right? **But why not create one, if it’s not exist? I think its ok to build index dynamically.**
The original purpose of my post is that, maybe the error msg is not accurate. I mean it saids “Attribute name is indexed”, but wrong.
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### Author:  [@ashwin95r](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/ashwin95r)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2017, 6:49am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/rebuildindex-failed-through-admin-interface/1347/4 "2017-03-15T06:49:16Z")
Yeah right, the error message needs to be fixed. The `not` is missing.
We’re working on dynamic indexing, and it’d be out with next release. As of now, this is only for **rebuilding**.
Thanks for the catch!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2017, 6:49am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/rebuildindex-failed-through-admin-interface/1347/5 "2017-04-14T06:49:24Z")
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