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    Regenerate a text index for a table

    You can regenerate a table text index when you change table stop words or display values.

    Before you begin

    Role required: admin

    About this task

    By default, the system maintains text indexes on a daily schedule. Typically, you only need to manually regenerate a text index when you change these values.
    • You change the list of table-specific stop words.
    • You change the display value of a record such as changing a user or group name.

    Until you regenerate the index, text searches for old display values will still produce results and searches for the new display value will not show results.

    Text indexing can be a resource-intensive task that may take a while to complete. You may notice performance degradation or incomplete search results during index generation. To estimate text indexing duration, you can view historical statistics.

    Note: This index regeneration process purges the existing text search index for the table before it regenerates it. While it is processing, no search results are returned if you perform a text search before the regeneration is complete. An alternate method is available that does not impact use of text searches for the table while the regeneration is in process. See Reindex a table text search without impacting returned results.

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to System Definition > Text Indexes.
    2. Open the text index for the table.
      For example, select task.
      The system displays the Text Index record for the table.
    3. Click the Regenerate Text Index related link and click OK.
      .
      Regenerate a text index

    Result

    The system schedules the table for text indexing.
    • Reindex a table without impacting text search results

      Rebuild text search indexes without adversely impacting search results. You can continue to perform text searches on a table while the index regeneration takes place.

    Related tasks
    • Enable text indexing for a table
    • Configure a single table for indexing and searching
    • Configure multiple tables for indexing and searching
    • Regenerate a corrupt index
    • Remove an index
    • Remove an index for a specific field
    • Remove an index for a child table
    • Change the query mode of an indexed table
    • Configure tables to use the Japanese tokenizer
    Related concepts
    • Zing indexes punctuation as part of some words
    • Zing indexes some HTML elements
    Related reference
    • Zing index and search dictionary attributes
    • Text indexing statistics and status

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      Regenerate a text index for a table

      You can regenerate a table text index when you change table stop words or display values.

      Before you begin

      Role required: admin

      About this task

      By default, the system maintains text indexes on a daily schedule. Typically, you only need to manually regenerate a text index when you change these values.
      • You change the list of table-specific stop words.
      • You change the display value of a record such as changing a user or group name.

      Until you regenerate the index, text searches for old display values will still produce results and searches for the new display value will not show results.

      Text indexing can be a resource-intensive task that may take a while to complete. You may notice performance degradation or incomplete search results during index generation. To estimate text indexing duration, you can view historical statistics.

      Note: This index regeneration process purges the existing text search index for the table before it regenerates it. While it is processing, no search results are returned if you perform a text search before the regeneration is complete. An alternate method is available that does not impact use of text searches for the table while the regeneration is in process. See Reindex a table text search without impacting returned results.

      Procedure

      1. Navigate to System Definition > Text Indexes.
      2. Open the text index for the table.
        For example, select task.
        The system displays the Text Index record for the table.
      3. Click the Regenerate Text Index related link and click OK.
        .
        Regenerate a text index

      Result

      The system schedules the table for text indexing.
      • Reindex a table without impacting text search results

        Rebuild text search indexes without adversely impacting search results. You can continue to perform text searches on a table while the index regeneration takes place.

      Related tasks
      • Enable text indexing for a table
      • Configure a single table for indexing and searching
      • Configure multiple tables for indexing and searching
      • Regenerate a corrupt index
      • Remove an index
      • Remove an index for a specific field
      • Remove an index for a child table
      • Change the query mode of an indexed table
      • Configure tables to use the Japanese tokenizer
      Related concepts
      • Zing indexes punctuation as part of some words
      • Zing indexes some HTML elements
      Related reference
      • Zing index and search dictionary attributes
      • Text indexing statistics and status

      Tags:

      Feedback

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