An index area is a file system directory that contains the files for the full-text indexes that belong to the area. You create index areas manually. An object store can have one or more index areas.
Objects that belong to the same full-text index must share the following characteristics:
Content Platform Engine automatically creates full-text indexes to satisfy those requirements. Also, indexes might be created because the existing indexes are full as defined by the configured capacity for the index area.
For each indexed object, one index entry exists in one full-text index. This entry contains information for the content elements and also any CBR-enabled properties of the object. A full-text search returns a maximum of one search result for any object that matches the search criteria.