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Bulk Loading<br />

You should use the Bulk Index Tool to load RetrievalWare Libraries and their<br />

objects:<br />

• To build indexes of existing data that belong in an index according to index<br />

policy. This is part of the process of upgrading from RetrievalWare 6.8 to<br />

RetrievalWare 7.0.<br />

• To reinitialize a RetrievalWare library from a failed RetrievalWare system.<br />

• To reinitialize a RetrievalWare library after changes have been made to the<br />

indexing policy.<br />

If you are loading RetrievalWare Libraries from a legacy <strong>Windchill</strong> system, or<br />

reinitializing a RetrievalWare library from a failed system, see the section entitled<br />

Bulk Loading a RetrievalWare library.<br />

Bulk Loading a RetrievalWare Library<br />

You can use the Bulk Index Tool to load all the objects that belong in the<br />

RetrievalWare Libraries. This utility sends objects to a search engine to be<br />

indexed according to their domain’s indexing policy.<br />

You can perform the following tasks with this utility:<br />

• Start and stop the bulk indexing process. Because loading indexes can take a<br />

significant amount of time, it may be necessary to stop the operation for some<br />

length of time. State is maintained in the BulkIndexListEntry table, which is<br />

created by this tool, so the process can be stopped and restarted without<br />

having to reindex objects that have already been indexed.<br />

• Schedule the process to start and stop at specified times.<br />

• Check on the status of the overall bulk indexing process.<br />

• Attempt to reindex objects that have failed the indexing process.<br />

• Maintain a detailed log of the indexing process.<br />

Note: The Bulk Index Tool can only be used to load RetrievalWare libraries.<br />

This tool takes a snapshot of a indexable objects in <strong>Windchill</strong>’s database. The<br />

snapshot is taken at a particular time, and a list of all of the indexable objects<br />

residing in the database are stored in the BulkIndexListEntry table. The bulk<br />

indexing process consists of looping through this table and determining whether<br />

each object belongs in a collection(s) according to the index policy of the domain<br />

to which the object belongs. If so, the object is indexed into the appropriate<br />

collections.<br />

You can start, stop, and schedule this bulk indexing process.<br />

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