Manage Azure AI Search indexes, index documents with your own vectors, and run full-text, filtered and vector searches.
Explore 8 workflow actions for Azure AI Search, including account permissions and operation limits.
5 read actions3 write actions
WORKFLOW ACTIONS
What you can configure.
Choose an action in the workflow builder, connect an account, and map its inputs. These actions are available in the catalog; your account access and a successful test determine whether they work for your setup.
Create or update index
Write
Creates an index, or replaces an existing index's definition, with its fields and vector search profiles.
Permissions and limits
Account permissions
An Azure AI Search admin API key (a query key is enough for search-documents and get-document)
A repeated request may repeat the external action. Review the previous result before retrying a write.
Delete index
Write
Deletes an index and all its documents.
Permissions and limits
Account permissions
An Azure AI Search admin API key (a query key is enough for search-documents and get-document)
Operation limits
A deleted index and its documents cannot be restored.
A repeated request may repeat the external action. Review the previous result before retrying a write.
Get document
Read
One document by its key.
Permissions and limits
Account permissions
An Azure AI Search admin API key (a query key is enough for search-documents and get-document)
Get index
Read
One index definition: fields, vector search profiles and algorithms, semantic and scoring settings.
Permissions and limits
Account permissions
An Azure AI Search admin API key (a query key is enough for search-documents and get-document)
Get index statistics
Read
Document count, storage size and vector index size of an index.
Permissions and limits
Account permissions
An Azure AI Search admin API key (a query key is enough for search-documents and get-document)
Index documents
Write
Uploads, merges, merges-or-uploads or deletes up to 1000 documents in one batch. Each document carries its own @search.action.
Permissions and limits
Account permissions
An Azure AI Search admin API key (a query key is enough for search-documents and get-document)
A repeated request may repeat the external action. Review the previous result before retrying a write.
List indexes
Read
The search service's indexes with their fields and vector search settings.
Permissions and limits
Account permissions
An Azure AI Search admin API key (a query key is enough for search-documents and get-document)
Search documents
Read
Searches an index with full-text, filters and vector queries (nearest neighbors of a vector you supply, or text for the index's vectorizer), alone or as hybrid search.
Permissions and limits
Account permissions
An Azure AI Search admin API key (a query key is enough for search-documents and get-document)
SETUP
Start with a controlled test.
01Connect the intended account
Use the account and permissions required for your process. Review the connection check before configuring a workflow action.
02Review inputs and access
Select a listed operation and map its required inputs. Use test records and add a human approval before writes that need review.
03Confirm the result
Inspect step outputs and confirm the result in Azure AI Search. A saved workflow is not a completed provider action.