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Change the source for the body field in Filenet P8 crawler

  • 1.  Change the source for the body field in Filenet P8 crawler

    Posted Tue September 08, 2020 02:32 PM

    We are using Watson Explorer Content Analytics and we crawl a Filenet P8 system.

    This works fine for the use case where the content we want to analyse is the content element in P8

    We now have a use case where we want to analyse the content of a metadatafield.

    We can map this metadata field to an analyzable indexfield and inspect the content in a facet. But we want the XML to be treated AS IF it where the content in the body field.

    We want to use the XML Field Mapping to map the content in the metadatafield (which is XML) to several indexfields

    Is there a way to tell the crawler NOT to use the standard Filenet content element (in our case PDF files) but instead use this specific metadata field for the body index field ?





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  • 2.  RE: Change the source for the body field in Filenet P8 crawler
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    Posted Tue September 22, 2020 01:22 AM

    A colleague from software services with many years experience with WEX AC informs me as follows:

    You cannot do this with the standard Filenet P8 crawler. However, you can use a crawler plugin for this, as there you have all the metadata fields from Filenet available and you can change the content of the crawled document. You can find the documentation on rawler plug-ins here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS8NLW_12.0.0/com.ibm.discovery.es.ap.doc/iiyspplugovr.html

    There are sample crawler plug-ins on the WEX AC server in the following directory:

    $ES_INSTALL_ROOT/samples/ilelcrawler





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  • 3.  RE: Change the source for the body field in Filenet P8 crawler
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    Posted Mon September 28, 2020 08:10 AM

    Yes, that is what we implemented and it works, thanks!





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