Build Description Indexes (BDI)

About BDI

Use Build Description Indexes (BDI) to create or update a word search index that Eagle for Windows applications use to look up items by description. Description indexes are built using the information found in the Description field in Inventory Maintenance and the Short Desc field in Modify Short Description (Function MSD).  

In addition to the Description and Short Desc fields, you can also build an index based on UPCs, SKUs, Manufacture Part Numbers, or Vendor Alternate Part Numbers.

Additionally, you can build an index that contains information found in the Notes tab of Inventory Maintenance. You can select to build an index that contains information from any of the following types of Notes:

• Type 1--messages that print on Order Entry/POS invoices.

• Type 3--messages that only display in Inventory Maintenance.

• Type 8--messages that display in your iNet catalog (iNet users only)

After creating the initial description index, you can periodically update the index when changes are made to your inventory file (in the Inventory Maintenance window).

Running BDI

1. From the Eagle Browser, click Reports, Inventory Reports, Build Description Indexes. (Alternatively, type BDI in the Launch bar, and press Enter.) The Build Description Indexes window displays.

2. If you have set up a Default Report Profile for this report, you can simply click Run to use the defaults. Or, you can retrieve a saved report, make any necessary changes, and click Run.  Otherwise, continue with the next step.

3. From the page, leave the default of channel 91, or enter a different printer channel (such as 21 or 71) if channel 91 is busy.

4. Click . A page of fields displays.

   • In the "Create Indexes from MED Type X" fields (where X is Message Type 1, 2, or 8), enter Y if you want the system to use the information from the Inventory Maintenance Notes tab, Message Type 1, 2, or 8, when it builds the description index.

1. • In the UPCs, SKUs, Mfg Part #s, and Vendor Alt Part #s fields, enter Y if you want to be able to look up items by any or all of these four item identifiers.

   • In the "Update or Recreate Indexes" field, enter an R only if you want the system to delete the existing search index and create a new one. Otherwise, leave the default of U to update the existing search index.

   • If you use Style Color Size, set the Attribute Values field to Y so that when you do a description lookup, Attribute Values are included in the search.

   • Set up BDI, or change your queued BDI, so that the Attribute Values field is set to Y.

5. Click Run if you are running this report now, or click Queue if you are adding this report to a queue. For more information about creating queues, click here.

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