Live Document Specification Change Detection

The Dovetail Seeker Indexer Windows Service monitors the documentSpecifications.xml file in the configuration directory for changes. The Windows Service is smart enough to detect the addition, removal, and modification of document specifications for both Dovetail and file document specifications.

Specification changes cause the affected search domain to be re-indexed

When there is a change in an existing document specification, the Windows Service will perform a re-index of that specification to make sure all changes to the specification are reflected by the search index.

Why?

Re-indexing the search index on changes is important in-order to keep the search index fields consistent. If this did not happen search documents already indexed would be in the old format with new documents added to the index reflecting the current configuration.

Removing Specifications

When dovetail or file document specifications elements are removed from the documentSpecification.xml file the search documents for that domain will be removed from the search index.

Adding Specifications

When specifications are added to the documentSpecification.xml file they will be begin indexing during the next Dovetail or File polling interval.

See Also

Seeker Windows Service

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