About Smart Discovery Indexing

You index structures for faster search, filtering, and configuration of structures. Users can search for elements within a structure by entering a keyword, by specifying certain attributes, or by performing a spatial search.

For any structure, indexes are stored within:

• A global search index used for keyword and attribute search of item revisions.
• A structure index used for finding elements within a structure. Structure indexing can be performed either by using the existing Active Content Structure Indexing or Cacheless Search functionalities or by using the new Smart Discovery Indexing functionality.

Note: The Smart Discovery Indexing functionality provides advanced filtering and configuration capabilities such as filter by proximity, filter by volume, configure by proximity, and configure by selection. To use these advanced capabilities, index the structures by using Smart Discovery Indexing.

The Teamcenter database may contain a mix of structures indexed using cacheless search and Smart Discovery Indexing. However, each structure can have only one type of index, cacheless or smart discovery.

For structures indexed using the Smart Discovery Indexing functionality, the indexes are stored in the global search index and the Smart Discovery index. The global search index is maintained in the Solr search engine, while the Smart Discovery index is maintained in both Solr as well as in the Teamcenter relational database. You can also optionally index the structures for massive model visualization (MMV). Apart from the Smart Discovery index, the MMV index is also maintained in both Solr as well as in the Teamcenter relational database.

Database	Index	Description
Solr	Global search index	Indexes item revision data such as attributes and documents.
Relational database and Solr	Smart Discovery index	Indexes structure related data such as occurrence attributes and spatial data.
Relational database	Massive Model Visualization index	Indexes the 3D design data that is associated with the structure for visualization.

Both the indexes are used for searching and filtering in the context of a structure. The MMV index helps you visualize the massive models of the structure.