In SmartPlant Foundation, Full-Text Retrieval (FTR) currently allows you to search document metadata and content. The FTR Server provides FTR indexing of SmartPlant Foundation on non-administration objects and attached files.
All metadata associated with SmartPlant Foundation objects is stored on the FTR Main Server, and content indexing of files is performed on the machines where the files are stored in vaults. Therefore, every file server should have FTR installed if the content of the files stored on that server needs to be indexed. The FTR Main Server can be installed on the SmartPlant Foundation server or on a stand-alone computer. The setup requires IIS to be installed on the FTR Main Server. The SmartPlant Foundation Scheduler fetches the FTR scheduler tasks that are ready to be executed, and communicates with the FTR Main Server to process each FTR operation.
The following steps show the functional flow for an FTR Search:
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The SmartPlant Foundation Client makes an FTR Search request through the Find > FTR Search command.
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The SmartPlant Foundation server sends a query request to the FTR Main Server by invoking FTRService.aspx, which is a part of the FTR server installation.
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The ASPX page invokes the FTR Automation module and submits the query.
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The FTR Automation module calls the FTR Run Time (RT) product installed on the FTR Main Server.
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FTR RT performs a query through all the hosts on which FTR collections reside and posts back the object identifiers (OBIDs) of the matching objects to the SmartPlant Foundation server.
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Finally, the SmartPlant Foundation server uses the set of OBIDs to retrieve the matching objects from the SmartPlant Foundation data database and presents the results to the user.