scheduled special price products do not show in category

[AdminLinenStore]

Step to re produce

• schedule products with special price (or new) to run by cron for next day.

expect results

• Special price products shows in category and record found in category backend under "Products in Category " tab

actual results

• product records didn't show up until manually save it from backend catalog > category

*note my cron runs successfully without any issues

[karliuka]

The index must be in the "Update by Schedule" mode. Check, please.

[AdminLinenStore]

They are all set to "Update by Schedule" as below

it looks like product in category will only get updated by trigger a save button.

product its self has updated category but category doesn't show that product records