how to transport portal index

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I have question about transport portal index.

For transport portal content (e.g. iview, page, workset, role) could transport via

System admin> System configuration> Transport> Export or Import right!

But I wonder how can I transport index (web index) to my productive environment because my development and productive use deferent TREX.

Many thanks for all suggest.

Regards,

Kanok-on K.

[Former Member]

sorry miss understand

our site use only one trex

[detlev_beutner]

Even if this is historical, I would like to add some information, as this is not really documented anywhere in detail.

1. To transport the index definitions from one portal to another, you can use the CM Config Transport (Transporting Configuration Data - Knowledge Management - SAP Library). The index definitions can be seen (only when the export mode is switched on!!!!) under Global Services --> Related Areas --> Indexes --> Trex Index. Select the ones you wish to transport, "Export", activate "Include referenced configuration objects" (!!! important !!!).
2. This transport package can be imported on a different portal installation (with a different TREX backend). When you import the package, the TREX index definitions are created on the portal side. When you reindex these indexes, the indexes are created on the TREX backend, too.
3. What is NOT transported by this procedure are permissions on the indexes. The permissions are hold within a hidden "indexmanagement" repository, and without programming approaches one also cannot set this repository to non-hidden. So, there is no transport mechanism for the permissions by standard means. Anyhow, if one starts to develop something, it gets quite easy for experienced KM devleopers to export / import the permission settings for all indexes (index.getRID() leads to the corresponding index entry within the repository, permissions are maintained on that object).
4. In any case, someone who transports indexes the way I have described above should really know what he/she is doing. There must be no conflicting names etc, so in case of any trouble, one should feel advanced enough to understand and attack that trouble. This is nothing for beginners!

Hope it helps some people

Detlev