Step 1. Launch Aspire and open the Content Source Management Page
Launch Aspire (if it's not already running). See:
- Launch Control
- Browse to: http://localhost:50505. For details on using the Aspire Content Source Management page, please refer to Admin UI
Step 2. Add a new Socialcast Content Source
To specify exactly what shared folder to crawl, we will need to create a new "Content Source".
To create a new content source:
- From the Content Source , click on "Add Source" button.
- Click on "Socialcast Connector".
Step 2c. Specify Workflow Information
In the "Workflow" tab, specify the workflow steps for the jobs that come out of the crawl. Drag and drop rules to determine which steps should an item follow after being crawled. This rules could be where to publish the document or transformations needed on the data before sending it to a search engine. See Workflow for more information.
- For the purpose of this tutorial, drag and drop the Publish To File rule found under the Publishers tab to the onPublish Workflow tree.
- Specify a Name and Description for the Publisher.
- Click Add.
After completing this steps click on the Save then Done and you'll be sent back to the Home Page.
Step 3: Initiate a Full Crawl
Now that the content source is set up, the crawl can be initiated.
- Click on the crawl type option to set it as "Full" (is set as "Incremental" by default and the first time it'll work like a full crawl. After the first crawl, set it to "Incremental" to crawl for any changes done in the repository).
- Click on the Start button.
During the Crawl
- Click on the "Refresh" button on the Content Sources page to view the latest status of the crawl.
The status will show RUNNING while the crawl is going, and CRAWLED when it is finished.
- Click on "Complete" to view the number of documents crawled so far, the number of documents submitted, and the number of documents with errors.
If there are errors, you will get a clickable "Error" flag that will take you to a detailed error message page.
Step 4: Initiate an Incremental Crawl
If you only want to process content updates from the Socialcast (documents which are added, modified, or removed), then click on the "Incremental" button instead of the "Full" button. The Socialcast connector will automatically identify only changes which have occurred since the last crawl.
If this is the first time that the connector has crawled, the action of the "Incremental" button depends on the exact method of change discovery. It may perform the same action as a "Full" crawl crawling everything, or it may not crawl anything. Thereafter, the Incremental button will only crawl updates.
Group Expansion
Group expansion configuration is done on the "Advanced Connector Properties" of the Connector tab.
- Click on the Advanced Configuration checkbox to enable the advanced properties section.
- Scroll down to Group Expansion and click the checkbox.
- Add a new source for each repository you want to expands groups from (you'll need administrator rights on all of them to be able to do this).
- Set the default domain, user name and password of the crawl account.
- Set an schedule for group expansion refresh and cleanup.
- As an optional setting click on the "Use external Group Expansion" checkbox to select an LDAP Cache component for LDAP group expansion. See more info on the LDAP Cache component on LDAP Cache