Introduction to structure indexing

Structure indexing is a key part of Active Content Structure feature that is selected in Deployment Center while deploying Structure Manager. Structure indexing provides Active Workspace users with faster structure (BOM) navigation and powerful in-context search capabilities. For any given product configuration, there are two indexes maintained: An index within the Teamcenter database that is used for structure modeling and navigation. An index within Solr used for in-context searches. (Structure data is stored within the same Solr instance as object data but within a separate collection.) The Structure feature is made up of several components: Template Contains the model and schema, the tcserver libraries, and so on. Active Workspace client contributions Contains the client exposure of the server features. Indexer and translator additions Contains indexing framework support and additions. Use the bomindex_admin utility and the TcFTSIndexer to manage BOM index data. The runTcFTSIndexer utility maintains both Teamcenter and Solr indexes. Structure indexing support is added into the TcFTSIndexer installation during installation. Active Workspace should already be installed and working. All indexing in Active Workspace is orchestrated by a single TcFTSIndexer instance. This is the index orchestrator that performs orchestration functions for all types of indexing (object data, structure, and so on). It is expected that the TcFTSIndexer is run with the -background argument, and separate commands are issued to control the indexing operations for the different indexing types. A given indexing action can be executed once or executed on a given interval.