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titleKinds of Updates

The projectdoc Toolbox knows four kinds of updates to be performed for projectdoc documents.

UpdateDescription
Refresh

Recalculate document properties of all projectdoc documents.

Refresh is the fastest update task. Only confluence documents which are known to be projectdoc documents will be handled.

Revalidate

Recalculates document properties for all invalid projectdoc documents.

This is rarely necessary since invalid pages get revalidated on page access.

Repair

Recalculates document properties for all projectdoc documents with a lower version number than their Confluence pages.

This should be rarely necessary because the document properties are updated on an update of the Confluence page. This process helps to find and correct information of pages where the update failed.

Rebuild

Clears the projectdoc document tables and iterates over all pages on the Confluence server.

This should never be done without proper reason because it takes an enormous amount of processing time. If you think your Lucene reindex takes a lot of time, try this one. It is probably 10 times slower.

If everything works fine with the projectdoc Toolbox none of these services are required. Typically all lookup information is up-to-date. An update is made whenever a projectdoc document is updated by a user.

Section
titleRefresh

One use case for refresh may appear after the installation of an projectdoc Toolbox update. The new version may add new artificial properties or update the information stored in artificial properties. In this case a refresh is required to update the information for all existing projectdoc documents. New documents or existing documents that have been manually updated will provide the additional or updated document properties.

If the update of a document failed, because events did not get properly process, either due to system problems or issues with the software, a refresh may also be necessary to bring the documents back to the up-to-date state.


Section
titleRevalidate

When a document needs to be updated, the projectdoc Toolbox may decide to only mark the document as out-of-date and proceed with the current process. The update will be postponed to a later time when the updated version of the document is actually required.

In typical use cases the updated document will immediately be read for rendering to the user who has updated the Confluence page. So this is usually a use case if the Confluence document was updated programmatically.

The advantage of this process is that administrators may decide the point in time at which a larger set of invalid documents should be revalidated so that this process is not executed just-in-time when a user requests the projectdoc document.

Administrators may have a look at the invalid flag on a projectdoc document to check the amount of invalid documents.


Section
titleRepair

Repair is required if a projectdoc document is not in-sync with its Confluence page. Being not in-sync is determined by checking the version information, which is an integer value. If the version number of the projectdoc document is smaller than that of the Confluence page then this projectdoc document is deemed not in-sync.


Section
titleRebuild

All projectdoc document information is derived from the source code of the corresponding Confluence page. So if the lookup tables are cleared this information may be recalculated.

Unfortunately this may be a very time consuming process. Not only does the process need to recalculate each projectdoc document, it may also need to recalculate a document multiple times. This is because a property value may depend one or more property values of other documents which in turn may depend on property values of orther documents and so forth. The more complex the web of information is, the longer the process will take.

It is highly recommended to check this use case on a test installation with the production data in advance. This way the administrators may communicate the duration of the rebuild to the users.


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Section
titleWeb Service Interface


Pending Box

Rebuild REST services

  1. projectdoc-internal-1-rebuilder-migrate
  2. projectdoc-internal-1-rebuilder-projectdoc-spaces
  3. projectdoc-internal-1-rebuilder-rebuild
  4. projectdoc-internal-1-rebuilder-refresh
  5. projectdoc-internal-1-rebuilder-refresh-spaces
  6. projectdoc-internal-1-rebuilder-repair
  7. projectdoc-internal-1-rebuilder-repair-spaces
  8. projectdoc-internal-1-rebuilder-revalidate
  9. projectdoc-internal-1-rebuilder-site
  10. projectdoc-internal-1-rebuilder-spaces
  11. projectdoc-internal-1-rebuilder-taskid


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