AWC Advanced

TCFTS Indexer (Search & Indexing) Complete Guide

By Pankaj Verma••8 min read

A technical but readable explanation of indexing in Active Workspace, Solr, indexing types, and troubleshooting.

What is indexing in AWC?

Indexing in AWC is the process of transforming Teamcenter business objects into Solr documents so that AWC can search, filter, facet, and return results quickly.

Teamcenter Items • Revisions • BOM Indexing Layer event handling property mapping document creation Solr indexed documents AWC search + filters

Why Solr is used

  • fast full-text search
  • facets and filters
  • better ranking
  • scalable enterprise search layer

Different types of indexing

  • Full indexing — rebuild the full search index
  • Delta indexing — index only changed objects
  • Selective indexing — reindex chosen objects

Troubleshooting checklist

  1. check object exists correctly in Teamcenter
  2. check delta indexing triggered
  3. check queue/backlog status
  4. check mapping for the object type and fields
  5. check whether Solr contains the expected document