1. Index Manager system requirements
2. Installing Index Manager
3. What is an index?
4. Document folder permissions
5. Maintaining the index
6. Boosting performance
7. Analyzing Index Manager performance
8. Considerations when updating to a 64-bit Index Manager
9. How Index Manager file discovery works
10. Index Manager editions
11. Index Manager log reports "HTTP AddURL Failed"
12. Protocol for client communications with Index Manager
13. Things to remember when upgrading your Fotoware system from version 7.0 to version 8.0
14. What is Index Manager?

This guide provides an overview of product features and related technologies. In addition, it contains recommendations on best practices, tutorials for getting started, and troubleshooting information for common situations.

1. Creating an index
2. Adding document folders to an index
3. Allowing download and remote file operations
4. Allowing unauthenticated users to access indexes
5. An overview of the index status page
6. Automatically renaming files that contain illegal characters
7. Checking whether the Index Manager service is operating normally
8. Choosing a cache folder for thumbnails and previews
9. Configuring Index Manager to deliver metadata to FotoWeb
10. Connecting FotoStation to Index Manager
11. Controlling access to indexes
12. Creating thumbnails and previews for formats not natively supported by Index Manager
13. Controlling which files to index by creating filters
14. Creating thumbnails and previews to visually represent zip archives
15. Defining how Searches with Umlaut are Handled
16. Disabling leading wildcard characters
17. Disabling XMP sidecar creation
18. Enabling data mining of a field as an entire string
19. Enabling FotoStation and FotoWeb to sort by specific fields in indexes
20. Enabling or disabling an index
21. Excluding metadata fields from indexing
22. How Index Manager pushes metadata to FotoWeb
23. How to prevent crawling of specific folders
24. Indexing Adobe InDesign documents
25. Indexing Microsoft Office documents
26. Indexing PDF documents
27. Indexing video files
28. Making empty metadata fields searchable
29. Making searches ignore accented characters
30. Rendering transparency with a white background
31. Setting the index delay time
32. Setting today's date on files after metadata update
33. How Index Manager caching mechanisms work

This guide outlines how you can use Unions in Index Manager Enterprise to design a system with basic fault tolerance built in, or to combine several indexes to appear as a single large archive to users.

1. Combining several indexes into one using unions
2. Configuring indexes for load balancing using unions
3. Creating a backup index solution using unions
4. Deleting a union
5. Enabling or disabling a union
6. How does Index Manager scale?
7. How to configure a union to produce the fastest possible search result
8. How unions work
9. Setting access permissions on a union

Learn how to configure index maintenance to make your system perform at its best.

1. Index maintenance
2. Rebuilding an index
3. Regularly optimizing indexes for performance
4. Rescanning document folders in an index

This guide deals with administrative techniques to keep the Index Manager server performing its best and methods to change the way the indexing engine behaves. This way it is possible to fine tune the search results that users are getting.

1. Configuring stemming rules
2. Defining search synonyms in Index Manager
3. Defining stop words
4. Defining the characters that are recognized by the search engine