Configuring cacheless search in a Multi-Site Collaboration environment

If you work in a Multi-Site Collaboration environment, you can make cacheless spatial and attribute searches of products or programs that are owned or replicated at remote sites. Where appropriate, local and remote objects are incorporated in the search results.

If you enable this feature:

• Teamcenter checks access permissions to the remote BOM lines. If you do not have the necessary permissions, you cannot import the affected remote lines. If appropriate, you can review the search results and import only the lines to which you have access permissions.
• Identical revision and variant rules must be defined at all sites or searches may return inconsistent results. Also, the content of these revision rules and variant rules must always be consistent across all the sites.
• The content of saved queries must be consistent across all sites or searches may return inconsistent results.
• You can only initiate the search in Design Context, not in Structure Manager or Multi-Structure Manager.

To configure this feature, you must set the following preferences:

QS_remote_master_site

This preference lists the remote sites and the product or program that can be searched at each of those sites. It must be defined in a format similar to the following example:

DEFAULT:site1
Product2:master_site2
Product3:master_site3

The default site is always searched.

QS_remote_master_site_override

This preference allows the user to define a preferred remote site to make cacheless searches. It must be defined in a format similar to the following example:

Product3:master_site3

Whenever you add a new product or assembly to remotely search in Design Context, the administrator must update this preference with the new product and its owning master site at all sites in the Multi-Site Collaboration network.

You do not need to manually configure IDSM to use remote cacheless searches. When you install or upgrade the system using Teamcenter Environment Manager (TEM), it installs the callbacks necessary for remote cacheless search. Each site participating in remote cacheless search must install or upgrade the database using the same version of TEM.