GHT-200030B

How to Enable Adobe® PDF Full Text Search for ControlST*

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ControlST Software Suite V04.07 and later includes the latest Adobe® Reader® to provide full text searches. Adobe Reader
XI and the Windows® indexing service perform fast, accurate searches from within specified folders containing multiple .pdf
files.
Perform the following procedures provided in this document to enable text search:
1. Install and Enable Windows Search Service on Windows Server 2012 (applicable only to Windows Server 2012 users)
2. Install Adobe Reader 11.0 or Later (perform one time only)
3. Specify the ControlST Installation Directory for Search Indexing
4. Rebuild the Windows 7 / Windows Server 2012 Search Index
5. Perform a Search

Note If you have already installed the ControlST Software Suite, rebuild the Windows 7 / Windows Server 2012 index. (PDF
Filter 64Setup must be installed first.)

Install and Enable Windows Search Service on Windows Server 2012

Beginning with ControlST V06.00, Windows server 2012 users need to install the
Windows Search Service before installing Adobe Reader.

This procedure only needs performed by Windows Server 2012 users. If you do not
use Windows 2012, skip this procedure and continue to the procedure to install Adobe
Attention Reader 11.0 or later.

➢ To install Windows Search Service on Windows Server 2012 and enable Indexing options
1. Install the Windows Search Service feature.

From the Server

Management Interface,
select Manage, then select
Add Roles and Features.

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 Follow the Add Roles and
Features Wizard screen
prompts. From the list of
features to install, select
Windows Search Service.
Select the server on which
to install the Windows
Search Service and click
Install.

The Add Roles and Features Wizard will notify you when the installation is complete.

Installation Complete

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Install Adobe Reader 11.0 or Later
➢ To install Adobe Reader: from the ControlST DVD and AdobeReader folder, run the AdbeRdr11001_en_US.exe.

For a 64-bit computer, you must also run the PDFFilter 64Setup.msi located in the
AdobeReader folder.

Attention

Specify ControlST Installation Directory

➢ To specify the ControlST installation directory for search indexing

Note You must restart the computer after performing this procedure.

1. From the Start menu, select Control Panel.

2. Modify your computer’s Indexing options.

In the Search field, enter Search to filter the Control Panel items.

Select Indexing Optionsto

display the Indexing Options
dialog box.

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Click Modify to display the
Indexed Locations dialog box.

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3. Add the folders GE Energy and GE Control System Solutions to your Index locations.

Navigate to the folder in which the ControlST

Software Suite is installed, GE Energy.
The default locations for this folder are:
For 32-bit machines:
\\C:Windows7\Program Files\GE Energy
For 64-bit machines:
\\C:Windows7\Program Files (x86)\GE Energy

The folder GE Control System Solutions contains

Legacy tools documentation.

Select both folders, GE Energy and GE Control

System Solutions, and click OK to index these
locations.

Note Selecting GE Energy selects all applications you have installed from the ControlST release.

4. Restart your computer.

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Rebuild Windows 7 / Windows Server 2012 Index
➢ To rebuild the Windows 7 / Windows Server 2012 index
1. From the Start menu, select Control Panel.
2. From the previous procedure, perform Step 2 to display the Indexing Options dialog box.
3. From the Indexing Options dialog box, click Advanced. If prompted by UAC, click Yes. The Advanced Options
dialog box displays.

Click
Rebuild

4. When the following message displays, click OK. The rebuild can take several hours.

5. Click Close. When the rebuild is complete, Index complete displays.

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Search Documentation
➢ To perform a search: from the Start menu, enter a key word, such as Mark VIe control to display the search results of
all .pdf files that contain that term.

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Issued: June 2013 Revised: Jan 2016
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