Windchill System Administrator's Guide

Note: You can open two command prompts, side by side, to simplify the process
of running the tool. Use one command prompt to run the Bulk Index Tool and the
other command prompt to tail the BulkIndexTool.log file. The tail utility is a
standard UNIX utility. For more information, see the man page. This utility is also
available for NT from GNU at http://www.gnu.org.
For real-time progress, you can run the tail utility on the BulkIndexTool.log file.
However, this is not required.
The following prerequisites must be met before you can bulk load a
RetrievalWare library:
• The index policy rules for your site must be in place.
• The RetrievalWare Libraries that appear in index policy rules must be
properly configured.
When these prerequisites are met, you can run the Bulk Index Tool.
To run the Bulk Index Tool, type the following at a command prompt, and log in
as a user from the Administrator user group:
windchill wt.index.BulkIndexTool
Below is a discussion of each of the ten Bulk Index Tool menu options:
1. Create the entire list of objects to index:
Select option 1 when you first run the Bulk Index Tool so you can build the
BulkIndexListEntry table containing all the indexable objects to be processed.
Because the query for all indexable objects is very large, it may take a
significant amount of time to build the table.
The status of the overall bulk indexing process will be displayed whenever
someone logs in to the Bulk Index Tool. The BulkIndexListEntry table is built
after the first time the tool is run.
2. Create a list of objects to index based on current policy rules
Select option 2 if you want to build the BulkIndexListEntry table based on the
current Windchill PDM policy rules.
3. Create a list of objects to index that have not been indexed to date
Select option 3 if you want to build an BulkIndexListEntry table that only
contains items that have not yet been indexed.
4. Create a list of objects to index based on current policy rules that have not
been indexed to date.
Select option 4 if you want to build an BulkIndexListEntry table based on the
current Windchill PDM policy rules that only contains items which have not
yet been indexed.
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