Full-text indexing replaced by EDM server

Background

Prior to release 2019, Meridian Explorer supported full-text indexing through the capabilities of the repository host database management system, either Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle. This method excluded asset tags, which were not synchronized to the Meridian Explorer repository and were not searchable there.

Description

The advent of Meridian Cloud has increased the need for Meridian Explorer to be able to search for tags. To avoid synchronizing tags to Meridian Explorer repositories where they could be indexed, Meridian Explorer now executes full-text searches in the Meridian vault full-text index instead, which already includes the tag data.

This change eliminates the need to manage full-text indexes on the Meridian Enterprise Server computer as before but it now requires that full-text indexing with Windows Search be configured for the vaults that are synchronized to Meridian Explorer as described in About content indexing. Windows Search must also be installed on the Meridian Enterprise Server computer if it is deployed separate from the Meridian Enterprise computer where the index data resides.