Saturday, April 10, 2010

New Bug in Livelink 9.7.1 - Destroy Your Search Index

That's right.... this one will destroy your search index. It's a new bug that we discovered unfortunately the hard way. Opentext confirmed it and should be working on a patch.

Basically, when you create an extended attribute table for a category to reference, Livelink will build out a new table in its schema. The issue is that certain attribute names or the column name that Livelink will use when building out the table are in fact reserved words.

The reserved word in question this time around is ATTR_VALUE. Of course, this famous word is seen everywhere in Livelink, especially in the catregionmap table and llattrdata table. OUCH.

Words of warning here: Don't name an attribute or actually anything in Livelink "ATTR_VALUE". Just stay away from using it as a prefix or suffix. What happens is that the search index becomes corrupt and you have to rebuild it from the ground up. That is MASSIVE.

Good luck =]

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