The metadata managed by Impact Management is information about the structure of documents. Examples include the queries in a document, and what tables and columns are used in those queries. This metadata is gathered by the Impact Management Harvester and is stored in a set of tables alongside the repository tables.
The Impact Management Harvester can be set to run automatically or only when scheduled by an administrator. By default it is set to run only when scheduled by an administrator. To set the Impact Management Harvester to run automatically, change the Enable Harvesting setting in Manage General Properties of the Administrator module.
If automatic harvesting is enabled, the Impact Management Harvester examines new and modified files in the background with no manual interaction required. The metadata from these documents is recorded after the document is published or modified.
If automatic harvesting is not enabled, then metadata from files published or changed since the last time the harvester was run is not recorded until the Impact Management Harvester has been run again. See Synchronize Metadata Feature for instructions on how to run the Impact Management Harvester manually.
Note: | The default Harvester settings (Enabled, Max Request Log Time, Thread Pool Size, Polling Interval, and Max Queue Log Time) are defined in the Services section of EPM Workspace (select Navigate, then, Administer, then Reporting and Analysis, and then Services). See Reporting and Analysis Framework Services Properties in for detailed information on these settings. |