Indexing Your Watch Folders

Once you have some WFs defined, open the tool. You can index the documents in one of two ways. You can do a ‘Full Index’ or ‘Index Pending’. The difference between the two is that ‘Index Pending’ only indexes the files that are queued up already in the pending list. ‘Full Index’ first finds new files from the watches as well as checking the accuracy of the existing files for ones that need re-indexing.

For a ‘Full Index’ where you want TRIST to identify files and progress with the indexing, select ‘Full Index’ from the ‘Application’ menu.

If you prefer the ‘Index Pending’ method, you must firstly identify some files to add to the pending. This is done by either ‘Find New Files’ or ‘Check File Accuracy’ from within the ‘Documents menu. This option then allows you to preview the documents using the ‘Pending Documents’ combo-box. Once you are happy you can click the ‘Index Pending’ button or ‘Clear Pending’ to clear the list.

The process of indexing can take from a few minutes to over 30 depending on the volume of files. Be patient. The tool will tell you when it has finished.