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# Enabling Text Search in ALM

In Site Administration, you can enable text search for a specified database server that has the text search feature installed and configured. You can enable text search on a database server before or after you add projects to your Projects list.

If you enable text search on a database server before you add projects, the projects that you add afterwards are text search enabled. If you enable text search on a database server after you have added projects, you must manually enable text search for each existing project.

After you have enabled the text search for a specified database server, you set the default search language for the database server. You can change the default search language for a specific project from the Site Projects tab. For details, see Selecting a Text Search Language for a Project.

## Enable text search before adding projects

1. In Site Administration, click the DB Servers tab.

2. In the Database Servers list, select a database server.

3. Click the Text Search link.

   Caution: You cannot disable the text search after you have enabled it.

   Click Yes to confirm. The Text Search value changes from Disabled to Enabled.

4. In the Default Search Language list, set the default text search language for the database server.

## Enable text search after adding projects

1. In Site Administration, click the DB Servers tab.

2. In the Database Servers list, select a database server.

3. Click the Text Search link.

   Caution: You cannot disable the text search after you have enabled it.

   Click Yes to confirm. The Text Search value changes from Disabled to Enabled.

4. In the Default Search Language list, set the default text search language for the database server.

5. Click the Site Projects tab, and select a project for which you want to enable text search.

6. In the Project Details tab, click the Enable/Rebuild Text Search button to enable and rebuild the text search indexes. Click Yes to confirm.

   If the operation of enabling and rebuilding the text search indexes times out before it completes, you can change the default timeout value by defining the TEXT_SEARCH_TIMEOUT parameter. For details, see Setting ALM Configuration Parameters.

7. To enable text search for additional projects, repeat the previous two steps.

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