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Administer the Process Portal task index

The task index allows process participants in Process Portal to search for tasks that contain particular metadata or instance data.

You can run commands to update, rebuild, or search the task index. To change the task indexing behavior you must edit a configuration file.

Task indexing is enabled by default, and tasks are indexed according to a time interval that you can specify. Tasks get indexed when the task is created, assigned, or completed.

For example, process instance data that exists when a task is created or assigned gets indexed with the task, and the task can be found by searching on that data. If a task form consists of several Coaches but only one Coach is complete, the updates from this Coach are not searchable until all the task form is complete.

To make particular business data searchable in Process Portal, use Process Designer to make the appropriate process instance variable available in the search, and to set the search alias name used to search for the business data.

Administer the IT infrastructure


Related concepts:
Search tips for Process Portal


Related tasks:
Making variables available for Process Portal searches