Option To Trigger Re-Index Automatically

[cstarker6VCG4]

Any change to a parameter mapping or anything else that requires a re-index of property mappings should be automatic.

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/What-triggers-a-pr...

It seems the lack of this is a relic from a time where servers would need most of their resources to re-index. With modern tech, this is trivial and takes 10 seconds at most. At least it does for us and we have ~37,000 files. It's bothersome to ask the Vault admin to trigger a re-index whenever we mess with property mappings.

[ihayesjr]

Thank you for posting this idea. However, for our larger customers, this can cause a performance problem. Property re-indexing should be triggered at the lightest work server workload. 

Also, it isn't necessary to always run a property re-index. For example, if you are adding a new property mapping that doesn't exist in files already in Vault.

[cstarker6VCG4]

I said it should be an option in my title. I should have restated that in my post. Is there a way to allow non-admins to run a re-index? If not, can we mass-check-in a group of files to force re-index?

[ihayesjr]

It would not be a good idea to allow non-administrators to run re-indexes. 

You can mass check-in, but that does not force a re-index. The files would have to be changed to create a new file version. Then, the properties would be extracted upon check-in. That isn't a re-index.

[cstarker6VCG4]

I can check-out a multiple selection in Vault, but attempting to check-in results in this error:

I can't find any documentation on mass check-ins through Inventor or Vault.

[ihayesjr]

Because these are in Inventor, you can use the Inventor Task Scheduler or the Inventor Check-in Project option.