After running an incremental CAS crawl, you can run a partial update that incorporates the records from a Record Store instance.

To create this sequential workflow of incremental CAS crawl and then partial update, you can do the following:

For example, this partial update script calls CAS.runIncrementalCasCrawl("MyCrawl") which runs an incremental CAS crawl named MyCrawl. Then the script continues with partial update processing.

  <!--
    ########################################################################
    # Partial update script
    #
  -->
  <script id="PartialUpdate">
    <log-dir>./logs/provisioned_scripts</log-dir>
    <provisioned-script-command>./control/partial_update.bat</provisioned-script-command>
    <bean-shell-script>
      <![CDATA[ 
    log.info("Starting partial update script.");
    
    // obtain lock
    if (LockManager.acquireLock("update_lock")) {

       // call the partial crawl script to run an incremental 
       // CAS crawl.
       CAS.runIncrementalCasCrawl("MyCrawl");
        
       // archive logs
       PartialForge.archiveLogDir();
        
       // clean directories
       PartialForge.cleanDirs();
        
       // fetch config files to forge input
       PartialForge.getConfig();
        
       // run ITL
       PartialForge.run();
        
       // timestamp partial, save to cumulative partials dir
       PartialForge.timestampPartials();
       PartialForge.fetchPartialsToCumulativeDir();
        
       // distribute partial update, update Dgraphs
       DgraphCluster.cleanLocalPartialsDirs();
       DgraphCluster.copyPartialUpdateToDgraphServers();
       DgraphCluster.applyPartialUpdates();
        
       // archive partials
       PartialForge.archiveCumulativePartials();

      // release lock
      LockManager.releaseLock("update_lock");
      log.info("Partial update script finished.");
    } else {
      log.warning("Failed to obtain lock.");
      }
      ]]>
    </bean-shell-script>
  </script>

You run the partial update by running partial_update in the apps/<app dir>/control directory. For example:

C:\Endeca\apps\DocApp\control>partial_update.bat


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