Multiple Application Groups in a Folder

[rstockton]

When using multiple APP Groups in a Folder, is there anyway to tell the system which APP to search first?

[pankaj.puranik]

I am not aware of any such feature in CMOD.

But you should make sure that whenever a search is fired, CMOD should search in the minimum number of tables possible. This would improve performance while querying (lesser tables would meen faster response time).
So having a one-to-one mapping between the App group and the Folder should be a good idea for future.

[pankaj.puranik]

I guess your requirement is actually to restrict the search to particular Application Groups so that the search is faster, correct?
One way to restrict the search to a particular Application Group is by using the 'user and group' permissions. So if a particular end user does not have permissions on a particular App group, the query is automatically restricted.

[rstockton]

Thanks Panjak.

Actually we have a folder with 4 apps in it, and each App has the same type of data but for different time periods.  I was wondering if there was any way to make sure the search goes agianst the most current App first as each of the Apps contain several million records each. (Most of the searches are for the most current data).  It is a requirement that the user be able to search data among all the apps covering a 7 year period, so therefore we have to make all apps available on a single search.

Thanks,
RS

[Justin Derrick]

Simply set the default search range to something reasonable like 90 days -- CMOD will only search the tables that have records for those dates in them.  If the user doesn't find what they're looking for, they can expand the search window.

-JD.

[pankaj.puranik]

Just out of curiousity, are you using a date field as a segment field?

[swat]

I may be too late ......

You can define the application group mapping in Field definition tab for a folder. Select Field type as an Application group.