Indexing methods

You can index data in two ways; document or report indexing.

Content Manager OnDemand provides two ways to index data:

Document indexing is used for reports that contain logical items such as policies, and statements. Each of the items in a report can be individually indexed on values such as account number, customer name, and balance. Content Manager OnDemand supports up to 128 index values per item. With document indexing, the user does not necessarily need to know about reports or report cycles to retrieve a document from Content Manager OnDemand.
Report indexing is used for reports that contain many pages of the same kind of data, such as a transaction log. Each line in the report usually identifies a specific transaction, and it would not be cost effective to index each line. Content Manager OnDemand stores the report as groups of pages and indexes each group. When reports include a sorted transaction value (for example, invoice number), Content Manager OnDemand can index the data on the transaction value. This is done by extracting the beginning and ending transaction values for each group of pages and storing the values in the database. This type of indexing lets users retrieve a specific transaction value directly.