Configuring Search in WorkflowFirst

Enabling search in your WorkflowFirst application is a simple process: just go to the application record, click the 'Edit' button, expand the collapse group 'Other Application Settings', and find the 'Enable Search' entry box and change it to 'Yes'. 

Once you republish the application, the search index will be built. This may take a certain amount of time depending on the size of the data in the application. If there are lots of file attachments the process can take a bit longer than if there are only data records. 

All information in the application is indexed. Unlike traditional search engines, only the data itself is indexed and not the entire web page used to display that data. That has the benefit of keeping the index free of clutter and therefore improving the chance of finding the most relevant document. 

After the search index is created, it will be maintained incrementally: that is, every time a record is changed, or a new document attached, the search index will be updated with just that change and not rebuilt from scratch. This can take a few seconds to a few minutes depending on the load on the server.


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