What are Adaptive Search meta model types?

A meta model is a simplified representation of an actual model of an application, circuit, or software entity. Adaptive Search meta models are used to encode information that's necessary to index the entities that are searched from your Oracle sales application. Multiple meta models are supported with distinct workflow states, such as Archived, Active, Being Published, Sandbox, and Seeded.

When a full publish scheduled process job completes successfully, your Adaptive Search configuration becomes the latest active meta model. This ensures that users have the latest features and enhancements and aren't limited in functionality due to an older version of an active meta model being in use.

Adaptive Search Meta Model Types

Multiple meta model types can exist in an environment, but there can only be one active meta model. Adaptive Search saves the published configuration so you can restore the behavior you had before. You also have the option to restore your to the Adaptive Search configuration to the seeded meta model workflow state.

Here are the meta model types that Adaptive Search supports, each with a distinct workflow state.

• Seeded Meta Model

  A ready to use model that's shipped to customers. You can click Restore Defaults to revert to the predefined meta model.

• Sandbox Meta Model

  A modified version of the Adaptive Search configuration is stored and saved when you change the configuration and click Save or Save and Close.

• Being Published Meta Model

  When the configuration changes are saved and you click Publish, the meta model is in a state of being published.

• Active Meta Model

  When the full publish job completes successfully, it becomes the active meta model.

• Archived Meta Model

  The previous successful version of the configuration becomes the archived meta model. There's only one archived version available.

Meta Model Maintenance

From the Configure Adaptive Search page, you can click the Monitor tab and select Maintenance to run a scheduled process which:

• Backs up the current active meta model
• Removes older snapshots
• Cleans up any search server index or snapshots that aren't associated with any workflow state of the meta model.

Oracle recommends that you schedule the Maintenance job to run daily.

You can restore the current active Adaptive Search configuration by clicking Restore from Backup. This action clears any saved changes that aren't yet published.

Note:

Restore from Backup is disabled if a meta model is being published.

To restore the last active Adaptive Search configuration version, click Revert to Previous Version.

Any other actions should be taken by your help desk.