Setting Up File Indexing
1.Click File > Options or click on the Options button on the toolbar of the Data Explorer window.
2.In the Options dialog box, click on the File Indexing tab.
3.Select the desired options.
Database & Mode of Operation
Use Database Setup to set up the database connection for the index database. To index your personal data, choose SQLite as the default setting. See also: Setting Up Indexing in Client/Server Mode.
Calculations Setup is used to set up calculations that are executed for particular data sets and which are to be assigned to them in the index. See also: Setting Up Calculations.
From the Mode dropdown list, select the indexing mode for data files on the hard disk.
•Select No indexing to disable indexing.
•Select Index in stand-by mode to enable indexing as long as FlexPro is not used interactively. Use this option if indexing interferes with your work in FlexPro.
•Select Always index to enable indexing to run in the background even while you are working with FlexPro. Use this option if you want to complete the indexing as quickly as possible.
Several indexing options are available:
•Restart Indexing: Restarts indexing, i.e. the program searches through all the data again from the beginning, but does not delete the index database.
•Reset Indexing: Discards the index database and restarts indexing from the beginning.
Use the Indexing Details... button to open a dialog box where you can monitor the current indexing process. Here you can also specify whether errors that occur during indexing are to be written to the file.
In the Indexing repeat rate field, specify how often the program should search for new files to index on the hard drive. This setting is for security purposes only. Usually changes to the file system (added, renamed, deleted files and folders) are detected automatically and indexing is restarted.
Use the option Activate file indexing when Windows starts up to specify whether indexing should start automatically when Windows starts up.
File Types To Index
Here you choose which file types known to FlexPro should be included when indexing, or select the Index all supported file types option.
Assign File Types
Particularly in the case of text data, the file name extension may apply to more than one text import schema, making it difficult to assign the right one to the text file. FlexPro can index only data that can have a unique import filter or text import schema specifically assigned to the data. Use the assignment table called Assign File Types to specify which import filter or which text import schema is to be used for specific folders and files on the hard disk. You can learn more about this feature by opening the Help dialog box.
Note: You will know whether you have to make an assignment for a file when you manually import it. Whenever the Choose Import Format dialog box appears and more than one file format or text import schema is listed, this means that the data format is ambiguous and you need to solve the problem.
Folders to Index
Here you specify the hard drive folders in which the program will search for data files. Use the Subfolders column to specify whether to search through specific subfolders as well.
In the Excluded Files and Folders field, specify the file types (e.g. *.exe; *.sys) or paths of folders and individual files that should be ignored when indexing.