search retrieves old versions due to indexed content

I've got a site using flexicontent for all site content. When running a search via the native joomla search module with the flexicontent plugin enabled and core joomla content plugin disabled, the search will return results that include references to older-versions.

The links themselves send to the current version of the article. But the description in the search results is an old version.

In our case, we removed reference to a staff person who is no longer with the org and replaced with the new staff person. Searching on the old name still yields results, when the current version of the article does not contain their name.

I believe this is do to indexing taking place on the content. If I get into the backend, go to flexicontent-items, and filter on introtext -- i don't get the results. If i search on indexed content, I do. So apparently the index is not getting updated when a new version of an item is generated -- which would seem to be a significant flaw.

How can I clear out the index so that the old versions are not included? And are there any suggestions for correcting this behavior moving forward?

At the moment there isn't any simple solution to re-index the items.
We are working on a FLEXItools component that will perform this kind of tasks, plus maintenance and cleanup.
I'm sorry but except editing and resaving the items, I don't know what to suggest to you at the moment.
Cheers,
Emmanuel.

what will editing and resaving the items do?
the issue is that all the older versions of the item is still being indexed, and thus showing up in search results.

how is indexing handled in the db? can I clear it out there?

so it looks like: _flexicontent_items_ext
contains the indexed search content. does that table serve any other purpose? and how/when does indexing take place? if I empty the table, will it screw up the search function, or just regenerate fresh indexing?

hello just do re-edition of your article with your selected user and the index will be ok (it just a basic solution)

it doesn't work. if i edit and resave the item, the old version is still showing up in the search results (i empty cache, confirmed a new version was created, etc.)

if i empty _flexicontent_items_ext, will the indexing be automatically rebuilt? or will that screw things up?