Index Manager
This is the administration guide for Index Manager. Learn all about how to configure, maintain and optimize the indexing and search engine of your FotoWare DAM system.
- Getting started with Index Manager
- Get started installing and configuring Index Manager. This guide covers the basics before you start creating your indexed archives.
- Index Manager system requirements
- Installing Index Manager
- What is an index?
- Document folder permissions
- Maintaining the index
- Boosting performance
- Analyzing Index Manager performance
- Considerations when updating to a 64-bit Index Manager
- How Index Manager file discovery works
- Index Manager Editions
- Index Manager log reports "HTTP AddURL Failed"
- Protocol for client communications with Index Manager
- Things to remember when upgrading your FotoWare system from version 7.0 to version 8.0
- What is Index Manager?
- Creating and configuring indexes
- This guide provides an overview of product features and related technologies. In addition, it contains recommendations on best practices, tutorials for getting started, and troubleshooting information for common situations.
- Creating an index
- Adding document folders to an index
- Allowing download and remote file operations
- Allowing unauthenticated users to access indexes
- An overview of the index status page
- Automatically renaming files that contain illegal characters
- Checking whether the Index Manager service is operating normally
- Choosing a cache folder for thumbnails and previews
- Client Access Licenses for Index Manager and Color Factory
- Configuring Index Manager to deliver metadata to FotoWeb
- Connecting FotoStation to Index Manager
- Controlling access to indexes
- Controlling which files to index by creating filters
- Creating thumbnails and previews for formats not natively supported by Index Manager
- Creating thumbnails and previews to visually represent zip archives
- Defining how Searches with Umlaut are Handled
- Disabling leading wildcard characters
- Disabling XMP sidecar creation
- Enabling data mining of a field as an entire string
- Enabling FotoStation and FotoWeb to sort by specific fields in indexes
- Enabling or disabling an index
- Excluding metadata fields from indexing
- How Index Manager pushes metadata to FotoWeb
- How to prevent crawling of specific folders
- Indexing Adobe InDesign documents
- Indexing Microsoft Office documents
- Indexing PDF documents
- Indexing video files
- Making empty metadata fields searchable
- Making searches ignore accented characters
- Rendering transparency with a white background
- Setting the index delay time
- Setting today's date on files after metadata update
- Building enterprise systems with Unions
- This guide outlines how you can use Unions in Index Manager Enterprise to design a system with basic fault tolerance built in, or to combine several indexes to appear as a single large archive to users. If you're new to Unions, we suggest you start reading about how unions work first.
- Combining several indexes into one using unions
- Configuring indexes for load balancing using unions
- Creating a backup index solution using unions
- Deleting a union
- Enabling or disabling a union
- How does Index Manager scale?
- How to configure a union to produce the fastest possible search result
- How Unions work
- Setting access permissions on a union
- Index maintenance
- Learn how to configure index maintenance to make your system perform at its best.
- Optimizing the search engine
- This guide deals with administrative techniques to keep the Index Manager server performing its best methods to change the way the indexing engine behaves. This way it is possible to fine tune the search results that users are getting.