To maintain the text indexes, select the text index in the control pane and click on the Select menu command. You can select one of the following commands from the menu:
Note that the Activating and Deactivating commands only display if you create the index with a cache option.
Select the Alter command and a dialog displays a series of panels. These provide an overview of the text index parameters. Note that you can not change all of the parameters.
Figure 19. Alter Index dialog: Name tab
The Name panel displays the name and storage configurations for the index. You can change the index and work directories.
The Target panel displays the target and numeric attribute settings of the index. You cannot change these configurations.
The Text panel displays the text document configurations. You cannot change these settings.
Figure 20. Alter Index dialog: Update tab
The Update panel displays the update characteristics of the index configuration. You can alter the update schedule. If the index was created for incremental updates, you can also modify the minimum number of changes. If the index was created with the commitcount option, you can also modify the commitcount value.
Figure 21. Alter Index dialog: Cache Table tab
The Cache Table panel displays the cache option settings. If the result cache is already enabled, you can modify the persistent directory, or make the index cache temporary. You might also change the Maximum cache size and the Percentage of initial cache utilization.
Select the Drop command and a dialog displays the available text indexes.
Select the index and click on the OK button.
Select the Update command and a dialog displays a number of update options.
Figure 23. Update Index dialog
You can specify a commitcount for the update operation. If you want to update the minimum specified during create or alter index, select the Minimum number of changes check box. To reorganize the index, select the check box. Note that if reorganization is suggested, the check box is enabled.
Select the Show index events command and the contents of the event table display in the dialog.
Figure 24. Index Events dialog
To clear the index events, click on the Reset button.
Select the Activate index memory command and a dialog displays.
Figure 25. Activate the cache dialog
To activate the cache, click on the OK button. If you want to build the cache from scratch, select the check box.
Select the Deactivate index memory command and a dialog displays.
Figure 26. Deactivate the cached table dialog
To release the cache, click on the OK button.
Select the Show status command and a dialog displays the status of the text index.
Figure 27. Index Status dialog
This includes information on the number of indexed documents, the reorganization suggested flag, and additional index information.