How to Enable the Indexing Server in PDMWorks Workgroup

In my last entry, I discussed whether you needed to use Indexing Server or not. For today, I shall discuss how to enable the Indexing Server in PDMWorks Workgroup.

1. Go to your PDMWorks Workgroup server and click Start… Control Panel… Add or Remove Programs…Add/Remove Windows Components and select Indexing Service.

It may ask you at this time to provide your Windows Server CD.         

                   

2. Open up PDMWorks Workgroup Vault Administrator and go to Search tab. Click the Enable Indexing Service Search checkbox and select Build Catalog. You will see that it will create a count of how many documents are catalogued.

After doing the above steps, you should have a better results when working with PDMWorks Workgroup.

NOTE: This article provided courtesy of Gerald Go, PDM Specialist at Graphics Systems Corporation