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Property Changes in Production and Schema Updates
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Changing Properties Without Immediately Updating All Assets
This approach adds properties to the index, but only new or updated assets carry the new properties.
It performs a re-index so there is no interruption for the user. Index updates are blocked for all
indexes until the re-indexing completes.
After pressing Start, you might receive a timeout error after 10 seconds. This is expected, as the
re-index operation needs more than 10 seconds to complete. Do not press Start again, but allow the
re-indexing to finish. See “Monitor the Re-index Process” on page 111 for information on
determining when a re-indexing operation finishes. Once the re-indexing completes, press Start again
and indexing resumes normally.
To change properties in a schema without updating all assets:
1. Start Interplay Administrator and log on to the Interplay Production database that you want to be
indexed.
2. In the Site Settings section of the Interplay Administrator, click the Production Engine Bus
Connector icon.
3. Click the Canonical Data tab.
4. Change the property selection in the Canonical Data tab, and then click Apply. For information
on using the Canonical Data tab, see “Configuring and Using the PEBco Service” on page 39.
5. Click the Manage/Status tab.
6. Click Stop to stop the service.
7. Click Start to start the service.
Changing Properties and Immediately Updating All Assets
This procedure follows the steps in the re-indexing with one difference: since indexing starts from the
beginning, it takes some time before new changes are sent to the index. Use this method if it is
important to get the new properties into the index. If getting new assets immediately into the index is
the highest priority, then you can Resync at a later point and go with the re-index method (see
“Changing Properties Without Immediately Updating All Assets” on page 109).
To change properties in a schema and update all assets:
1. Start Interplay Administrator and log on to the Interplay Production database that you want to be
indexed.
2. In the Site Settings section of the Interplay Administrator, click the Production Engine Bus
Connector icon.
3. Click the Canonical Data tab.
4. Change the property selection in the Canonical Data tab, and then click Apply. For information
on using the Canonical Data tab, see “Configuring and Using the PEBco Service” on page 39.
5. Click the Manage/Status tab.
6. Click Stop to stop the service.
7. Click Resync to update the whole database content independent from any existing saved
timestamp. Resyncing the database might take a long time to complete and will invalidate the
existing content of your index. During this process, the search only returns assets that are already
processed within this run.