Creating an index

Adding document folders to an index

Allowing download and remote file operations

Allowing unauthenticated users to access indexes

Learn how you can allow any unauthenticated user to access the indexes on your server

An overview of the index status page

This topic explains what you see on the status page in the Index Manager configuration.

Automatically renaming files that contain illegal characters

How to configure Index Manager to automatically rename files in the document folders that contain illegal characters.

Checking whether the Index Manager service is operating normally

Choosing a cache folder for thumbnails and previews

Configuring Index Manager to deliver metadata to FotoWeb

Connecting FotoStation to Index Manager

How to configure FotoStation to connect to an Index Manager index.

Controlling access to indexes

How to define which users have access to an index.

Creating thumbnails and previews for formats not natively supported by Index Manager

Learn how to use ImageMagick to have Index Manager create thumbnails and previews for formats not natively supported.

Controlling which files to index by creating filters

How to add a file name pattern filter to an index to control the content that is included.

Creating thumbnails and previews to visually represent zip archives

Defining how Searches with Umlaut are Handled

Disabling leading wildcard characters

Learn how to configure Index Manager to ignore searches that start with wildcard characters.

Disabling XMP sidecar creation

How to disable XMP sidecar creation.

Enabling data mining of a field as an entire string

How to enable data mining of a field as a string rather than as individual words

Enabling FotoStation and FotoWeb to sort by specific fields in indexes

Enabling or disabling an index

How to enable or disable an index on the Index Manager server.

Excluding metadata fields from indexing

How to exclude certain fields from the index so that the content cannot be searched for.

How Index Manager pushes metadata to FotoWeb

How to prevent crawling of specific folders

Indexing Adobe InDesign documents

With an Adobe InDesign server connected, Index Manager can index InDesign documents.

Indexing Microsoft Office documents

This topic explains how you configure Index Manager to index Microsoft Office documents (Word and PowerPoint). Index Manager will index the document content to make it searchable and create thumbnails and previews of the document pages/slides.

Indexing PDF documents

How to configure Index Manager to index PDF documents.

Indexing video files

How to configure Index Manager to index video files, and what to consider if your system includes Index Manager and FotoWeb.

Making empty metadata fields searchable

Explains how to index empty fields and the benefits of doing so.

Making searches ignore accented characters

How to allow users to type search queries without using diacritics and still find what they're looking for.

Rendering transparency with a white background

Learn how to render transparency with a white background.

Setting the index delay time

How to set the delay time from when a file updates until Index Manager updates the index.

Setting today's date on files after metadata update

Learn how to set today's date on files after the metadata is updated.

How Index Manager caching mechanisms work