There are situations in which you may want to regenerate workspace metadata for all projects and their assets in a Designer workspace. This is referred to as resetting the workspace index. For information on carrying out this procedure, see Resetting the Workspace Index.

Typically, there are two situations in which you may want to reset the workspace index:

These two scenarios are discussed in more detail below.

You may need to reset the workspace index to capture metadata about assets that were created or modified when workspace indexing was disabled. Workspace metadata is created or updated only when a file change event occurs. Therefore, simply re‑enabling workspace indexing will not generate the missing metadata retroactively. In such cases, you should consider resetting the workspace index to create or update the metadata for all assets.

If you suspect the workspace index has become corrupted, you may want to reset it. For example, corruption may be indicated if you have created an asset and you are certain that workspace indexing is enabled, but when you search for workspace metadata on that asset, nothing is found.

If this happens for a single asset, you can make a trivial change to the asset and save it; then, reverse the change and save it again. This should trigger workspace indexing for the asset. If workspace metadata seems to be missing for several assets, consider resetting the workspace index.

For additional information, see webMethods BPM Process Development Help.

The process of resetting the workspace index begins with deleting the existing database files that contain the workspace metadata, and then restarting Designer. Upon startup, when no workspace index is found, Designer automatically creates an empty workspace index.

Finally, you must close and open each project, which triggers workspace indexing for all assets in each project.

For the complete procedure, see Resetting the Workspace Index.