Index and Authoring Modes in the platform apps

ND 2022-03-10

Various apps in the platform enable you to visualize the content in an index or authoring mode, as well as switch between these modes. Examples of these apps:

Engineering Release, Bookmark Editor, IP Classification Editor and IP Classify & Reuse

This is possible thanks to the icon that enables you to:

Understand the current display mode
Switch between the modes

Index mode:

Enables you to quickly search the database, as only content that is already indexed will be displayed, therefore the search is faster. The content displayed may not then be the most up to date content.

Authoring mode:

Enables you to search the database with all existing content, indexed or not. In case the database contains a huge amount of content, then this mode might cause reduction of the performance.

Lean more about these modes according to the following table:

Icon

Meaning

Index mode is turned ON:

This is the default mode
Indicates that the current content is displayed in index mode. Data is loaded from Index service, hence performance is good, however, the content may not be up to date.
It is automatically switched to Authoring mode following an authoring operation (such as add content to a bookmark, create new class, classify content etc.)
You can switch between authoring mode and index mode.

Authoring mode is turned ON

Indicates that the current content is displayed in authoring mode. Data is loaded from DB, hence the performance may not be as expected. The latest and exact content is displayed.

The authoring mode switches to index mode after 3 minutes since your last update

Index mode is turned OFF.

You cannot switch between the authoring and index modes
The system switches from Authoring mode and Index mode as required to tenable you to work with ‘Flattened View’ or the ‘Advanced Filter’.

When you mouse over the icon, a tool-tip displays the date and the mode of the last refresh

Preferences of the widget:

You can use the preference to define the time that the system will automatically switch from Authoring to Index mode: