Configuring Sun Master Indexes (Repository)

Deleting a Master Index Phonetic Encoding Definition (Repository)

Once you create a phonetic encoding definition, you can delete it as needed. Use caution when deleting definitions once a system is in production. This can cause inconsistent match results.

ProcedureTo Delete a Phonetic Encoding Definition (Configuration Editor)

  1. In the Projects window, right-click the master index application you want to modify, and then click Open.

  2. If the Configuration Editor dialog box appears, click Edit to check out the listed files.

    The Configuration Editor appears.

  3. Click the Phoneticized Fields tab.

    The Phoneticized Field page appears.

  4. In the Phoneticized Fields section, select the phonetic encoding definition you want to delete.

  5. Click Remove.

  6. Click Yes on the dialog that appears.

  7. On the Configuration Editor toolbar, click Save.

ProcedureTo Delete a Phonetic Encoding Definition (XML Editor)

  1. In the Projects window, expand the Configuration node in the project you want to modify, and then double-click the Match Field file.

    The file opens in the NetBeans XML editor.

  2. Scroll to the phoneticize-fields element in the PhoneticEncodersConfig element.

  3. Do either of the following:

    • To delete a field currently specified for phonetic conversion, delete all text between and including the phoneticize-field element that defines the field.

      Using the example below, to delete the first name phonetic field, delete the boldface text.


      <phoneticize-fields>
         <phoneticize-field>
            <unphoneticized-source-field-name>Person.LastName
            </unphoneticized-source-field-name>
            <phoneticized-target-field-name>Person.LastNamePhoneticCode
            </phoneticized-target-field-name>
            <encoding-type>NYSIIS</encoding-type>
         </phoneticize-field>
         <phoneticize-field>
            <unphoneticized-source-field-name>Person.FirstName
            </unphoneticized-source-field-name>
            <phoneticized-target-field-name>Person.FirstNamePhoneticCode
            </phoneticized-target-field-name>
            <encoding-type>Soundex</encoding-type>
         </phoneticize-field>
      </phoneticize-fields>
    • To delete all fields currently specified for phonetic conversion, delete all text between, but not including, the phoneticize-fields element.

  4. Save and close the file.