Answers.Body: <p>there is also a link at civicrm/group?reset=1 where you can 'update smart group counts' which uses this path /civicrm/group?reset=1&amp;update_smart_groups=1 so you could probably put a Menu item in with that destination if it is something that you need to do frequently.</p>
  
  <p>There is also a setting at civicrm/admin/setting/search?reset=1 where you can reduce the "Smart group cache timeout" (The number of minutes to cache smart group contacts. We strongly recommend that this value be greater than zero, since a value of zero means no caching at all. If your contact data changes frequently, you should set this value to at least 5 minutes.)</p>
  
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Body: <p>How quickly should I expect my smart group to update?</p>
  
  <p>I use smart groups to do calling from and data usually gets altered as a result of the call. However in order to get the the smart group contacts to update I have to clean the cache (or wait for the job to run).</p>
  
  <p>Is this correct?</p>
  
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Title: time taken for smart group updating
ThreadText: # time taken for smart group updating
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-06-14)
  
  How quickly should I expect my smart group to update?
  
  I use smart groups to do calling from and data usually gets altered as a result of the call. However in order to get the the smart group contacts to update I have to clean the cache (or wait for the job to run).
  
  Is this correct?
  
  **Tags:** smartgroups
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-06-14. Score: 1
  
  there is also a link at civicrm/group?reset=1 where you can 'update smart group counts' which uses this path /civicrm/group?reset=1&update\_smart\_groups=1 so you could probably put a Menu item in with that destination if it is something that you need to do frequently.
  
  There is also a setting at civicrm/admin/setting/search?reset=1 where you can reduce the "Smart group cache timeout" (The number of minutes to cache smart group contacts. We strongly recommend that this value be greater than zero, since a value of zero means no caching at all. If your contact data changes frequently, you should set this value to at least 5 minutes.)
  
  
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