Populating Your New Multiple Source Index Using ReIndex

You use the ReIndex utility to populate your new index table with data. Because your new index is populated from multiple sources (the bib and auth tables), you need to run the ReIndex utility twice—once for the bib table and once for the auth table.

You download this utility from the Support download page on the SirsiDynix customer web site on the Downloads & Upgrades page at https://support.sirsidynix.com. You run ReIndex from a command prompt. Before you run it, you add command-line arguments or “switches” to the ReIndex executable to set the type of index and the Horizon index code that your database builds.

To populate your new multiple source index using ReIndex

1 Close any running Horizon applications.
2 At a command prompt, go to the directory on the workstation where you downloaded the ReIndex executable.
3 Run this command to display a list of valid switches you can add to ReIndex:

ReIndex.exe /?

Note: You must enter a space before the slash ( / ) character.

The Command Prompt displays these parameters:

4 Enter this option at the command prompt to populate the bib index, followed by any optional switches you want to use:

ReIndex.exe /sserver /ppassword /uuser /ddatabase /m1 /iindexcode

5 Enter this option at the command prompt to populate the auth index, followed by any optional switches you want to use:

ReIndex.exe /sserver /ppassword /uuser /ddatabase /m2 /iindexcode

Note: The index code you enter in the “i” switch is the code you gave the index definition in the Table Editor in a previous step. (For more information, see Creating Two Index Definitions in the Table Editor .)

Note: Depending on how many records you are building in your index, the ReIndex process may take a long time.

 


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