ATG SearchAdmin UI and How Search Indexing is done?

What I intend to share in this article is a familiarity towards the admin UI screens of the ATGsearch.This article will give you an idea on how search indexing is done, not the code but the front end working in the search application.This will give you a fair idea on what the search guy should do get the products indexed once the coding part is over.Or simply configuring the search project. Figure one shows the BCC(Business control center) which is configured by adding certain UIs in the ATGSearch module.
                   Figure 2 shows the “Search Administration” tab with 4 different options.Search Project administration,New Search Project,Browse Search Projects,Open Search Workbench.Each of these will take you to different options for creating a search project or edit already created ones. Figure 3 and its sub shows how to create a project. Figure 4 shows a project you created and under the name of your project there are 4 steps, of which the last 3 are essential parts of configuring a search project. Content means adding or giving location of the file from which the indexing starts.It is normally  “ProductCatalogOutputConfig.properties“. Environment tab will help you set up  an environment for indexing, which tells where should the search engine run,in local setup your computer name is given.Indexing tab does the indexing job.