Searching for Custom Properties

Optimize custom properties to be able to search for these properties from clients like Data Navigation, DIAdem, or LabVIEW and to improve the search configuration. The values of the optimized custom properties are displayed in a list in the search input area of the client, from where you can choose the property value you want to search for.

Note  

For complex configurations, complete all configuration settings before applying them to the server. The indexing process may take some time and you cannot use the instance during this time.

1. In Data Indexing, click DataFinder Instances.
2. Select an instance and click »Manage»Custom Properties.
3. Choose whether you want to optimize custom properties for files, channel groups, or channels.
4. Optional: To determine which custom property you want to optimize, start the DataFinder instance and click Calculate Occurrences. Optimize custom properties with a high occurrence. Note that properties with a low occurrence may be incorrectly labeled.
5. Select the custom property you want to optimize.
6. Click Optimize. If a custom property has different data types, the DataFinder instance optimizes all selected properties for the data type that is most often used for indexing the custom property.
   

   Note  

   If you re-optimize a property that was previously excluded from optimization, the DataFinder must first re-optimize all files so that the previously excluded file is re-optimized as well.

7. Optional: Select an instance and click »Manage»Index»Index Optimization Schedule to optimize custom properties regularly.
8. Click Apply in the highlighted area to accept the settings.