Content Search Guide

CHAPTER 11

Search Options Reference

This chapter describes the search options you can configure in exteNd Director:

• Copy document contents into the DRE?

• Debug during import?

• Enable link to the Search subsystem?

• Importable file extensions

• Importable MIME types

• Index custom document metadata?

• Index document content?

• Index standard document metadata?

• Index port

• Install directory for binary document text filters

• Name of DRE database

• Name of DRE host

• Number of deleted documents to batch up

• Operations that trigger immediate synchronization

• Query port

• Support binary document formats?

• Symbol for concatenating multivalue custom metadata values before indexing

• Synchronization mode

    For background information, see Setting Search Options.

Copy document contents into the DRE?

Indicates whether to copy document contents into the exteNd Director Dynamic Reasoning Engine (DRE) when the document is imported and indexed.

You can configure this option:

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

• Using its Set method, as described in Setting search options programmatically at runtime

Debug during import?

Indicates whether to dump document contents to the console as documents are indexed for debugging purposes.

You can configure this option:

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

Enable link to the Search subsystem?

Indicates whether to activate Autonomy and Search subsystem interactions with the CM subsystem—including importing, indexing, and searching.

You can configure this option:

• When you create your exteNd Director project, as described in Setting search options at design time

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

Importable file extensions

Specifies the extensions of binary formats that you can import into the DRE.

You can configure this option:

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

NOTE:   Binary files without extensions are treated as text files.

Importable MIME types

Specifies the MIME types of binary formats that you can import and index in the DRE. The following MIME types are supported:

• Plain text

• HTML

• SGML

• XML

• Microsoft Word for Windows Version 3.x and higher

• Microsoft Excel Version 3.x and higher

• Microsoft PowerPoint Version 4 and higher

• Adobe Acrobat PDF

  Key in config.xml	Default	Tips
  com.sssw.cm.fetch.mime.types	text/html;text/sgml;text/xml;text/plain;application/msword;application/pdf;application/msexcel;application/xmsexcel;application/powerpoint;application/mspowerpoint	The number and order of importable MIME types must match the number and order of importable file extensions.

You can configure this option:

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

Index custom document metadata?

Indicates whether custom document metadata (extension metadata) field values should be indexed. Custom metadata is application-specific information about content that you define in the CM subsystem as fields in document types. Custom metadata helps to categorize content, making it easier to search.

You can configure this option:

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

• Using its Set method, as described in Setting search options programmatically at runtime

Index document content?

Indicates whether document content should be indexed.

You can configure this option:

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

• Using its Set method, as described in Setting search options programmatically at runtime

Index standard document metadata?

Indicates whether standard document metadata should be indexed. Standard metadata is descriptive information about content that is automatically attached to every document. Examples of standard metadata are title, author, and creation date.

You can configure this option:

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

• Using its Set method, as described in Setting search options programmatically at runtime

Index port

Specifies the port number used by the DRE for indexing:

You can configure this option:

• Using the DRE Administration console, as described in Configuring the DRE using the exteNd Director DRE Administration console

• When you create your exteNd Director project, as described in Setting search options at design time

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

• Using its Set method, as described in Setting search options programmatically at runtime

• In the DRE configuration file, as described in Setting search options by modifying the DRE configuration file

Install directory for binary document text filters

Specifies where Autonomy OmniSlave binary document text filters are installed.

You can configure this option:

• When you create your exteNd Director project, as described in Setting search options at design time

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

Name of DRE database

Specifies the name of the DRE database that fetches documents from the Default CM repository.

You can configure this option:

• When you create your exteNd Director project, as described in Setting search options at design time

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

• Using its Set method, as described in Setting search options programmatically at runtime

Name of DRE host

Specifies the host name or IP address of the DRE that fetches documents from the default CM repository.

You can configure this option:

• Using the DRE Administration console, as described in Configuring the DRE using the exteNd Director DRE Administration console

• When you create your exteNd Director project, as described in Setting search options at design time

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

• Using its Set method, as described in Setting search options programmatically at runtime

Number of deleted documents to batch up

Specifies the number of deleted documents to batch up before removals are reflected in the DRE.

You can configure this option:

• When you create your exteNd Director project, as described in Setting search options at design time

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

Operations that trigger immediate synchronization

Specifies the operations on documents that trigger immediate synchronization to reflect changes to metadata or content.

You can configure this option:

• When you create your exteNd Director project, as described in Setting search options at design time

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

Query port

Specifies the port number on which the DRE expects to receive queries.

You can configure this option:

• Using the DRE Administration console, as described in Configuring the DRE using the exteNd Director DRE Administration console

• When you create your exteNd Director project, as described in Setting search options at design time

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

• Using its Set method, as described in Setting search options programmatically at runtime

• In the DRE configuration file, as described in Setting search options by modifying the DRE configuration file

Support binary document formats?

Indicates whether to enable support for indexing documents in binary formats.

You can configure this option:

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

Symbol for concatenating multivalue custom metadata values before indexing

Specifies the delimiter symbol to use for concatenating multivalue custom metadata values before they are indexed into the DRE. You must specify a delimiter, because Autonomy does not support multivalue properties.

You can configure this option:

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

• Using its Set method, as described in Setting search options programmatically at runtime

Synchronization mode

Specifies how the DRE propagates changes to documents in the CM repository.

You can configure this option:

• When you create your exteNd Director project, as described in Setting search options at design time

• In an existing project, as described in Setting search options in an existing exteNd Director project

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