Presenter: Lopa Subramanian, Aras Learn about our new full text search capability that lets you search for content across multiple Item Types such as Parts and Documents as well as content within files. We will also look at how you can include your custom Item Types and properties in the search.

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2. Making Users More Productive with
Enterprise Search
Lopa Subramanian
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3. Agenda
 What is Enterprise Search?
 Demonstration
 Architecture
 Installation & Settings
 Q & A
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4. What is Enterprise Search?
 Full Text Search
 In time, a replacement for Discover Innovator and Alcove 9
 Core functionality
 Uses Lucene / Solr
 Free for Subscribers
 Coming in 11.0 SP7, May 2016
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5. What is Enterprise Search?
 Search Across:
▫ Multiple Item Types
▫ Related Items
▫ Content in Files
 Filter Results
 Permissions
 Configurable
 NOT:
▫ Query builder
▫ Report writer
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6. Demonstration
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7. The thing about search…
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User Interface
Data
Functionality
Permissions

8. Architecture
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Innovator
Database(s)Aras Innovator
Database(s)
Aras Innovator Server
ES Agent Service
ES Index Service
Vault(s)
Vault(s)
Vault(s)
Crawlers
Solr
Zookeeper
Cluster Service

9. Demo DB
Agent 1 Configuration
Example
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Sample DB
Agent 1 Configuration
11 SP7 - 1
ES Agent Service
11.0 SP7 - Demo DB
ES Index Service
Vault(s)
Sample DB
Vault(s)
Demo DB Solr
Demo DB collection
Sample DB collection
Zookeeper
Cluster Service
ES Agent Service
11.0 SP7 – Sample DB

10. Installation
 Install JRE 1.8
 ArasESIndexSetup.msi
▫ Installs Solr, Zookeeper and Cluster Service
▫ Run install in update mode for each database to install a collection
 ArasESAgentSetup.msi
▫ Installs Agent and Crawlers
▫ Has to be run separately for each database with Enterprise Search
▫ Creates Agent configuration in database if it doesn’t exist
 Default Ports for ES Index Service
▫ Solr - 8983
▫ Cluster Service - 8081
▫ Zookeeper 2181
▫ Change ports if installing multiple Index Services on the same machine
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11. Configuring Indexed ItemTypes
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ES Indexed
Configuration
ES Indexed Type
Root ItemType
Path
ES Indexed
Property
Part
Part
ES Indexed
Configuration Type
ES Indexed File
Path
Part -> Part Document -> Document -> Document File
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Part Goal
Document
Item Number
Name
Description

12. Summary
 Full Text Search
 Free to Subscribers
 New components to Install
 Scalable architecture
 Coming in 11.0 SP7
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