Developer Studio's Build Home index keeps showing as several days old, and 'Clear and Refresh' doesn't pick up recent entity/component changes (or even throws a NullPointerException) — what actually rebuilds that index?

Q: Developer Studio's Build Home index keeps showing as several days old, and 'Clear and Refresh' doesn't pick up recent entity/component changes (or even throws a NullPointerException) — what actually rebuilds that index?

The Build Home index (build_home_index.zip) isn't regenerated automatically by Developer Studio's own Clear/Refresh action — it's produced by manually re-running create_project_root.cmd after adding or changing files in the Build Home. Internally, IFS's own automated build pipeline runs that same script as its final step whenever it rebuilds a development environment; outside of that pipeline, re-running create_project_root.cmd yourself after any Build Home changes is what keeps the index current for Developer Studio to pick up.

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The Build Home index (build_home_index.zip) isn't regenerated automatically by Developer Studio's own Clear/Refresh action — it's produced by manually re-running create_project_root.cmd after adding or changing files in the Build Home. Internally, IFS's own automated build pipeline runs that same script as its final step whenever it rebuilds a development environment; outside of that pipeline, re-running create_project_root.cmd yourself after any Build Home changes is what keeps the index current for Developer Studio to pick up.

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