Content Sources

All of the management of Content Sources can be done in the Admin UI Content Sources, where you can access all of the management features.

• You can see all the content sources in their new presentation.
• Each content source card displays further detailed information.
• You can identify which is the content source you want including its current state, how many jobs it has crawled, and how many errors were produced.
• You can access the controls for copy, delete, crawl control, activate, and deactivate.

Controls

For the display of content sources Aspire adds new features and information into card like objects that represents each content source.

The cards contain several functions to control the content source.

1. Content Source Name & Icon
   • The display name of the content source, if the name is to long the name will appear follow by an ellipsis (e.g. ABC...), and if the mouse is over the name, a tooltip will appear with the full name. The Content Source Name is also a link to the configuration of the respective content source.
2. Content Source Status
   • Indicates the current status of the content source. When the status changes not only does the label change, the color of the content source card changes.
3. Time of Crawl
   • Indicates the length of time the crawl has been crawling, or how long it took the crawl to finish. In case the content source has never being started the label will be Never Executed. If you put the mouse over the Time of Crawl control, it will show a tool-tip in your local timezone, of the exact date and time the content source was started.
4. Jobs Done

   • Completed jobs shows the total number of successful jobs, you can also click on Complete and open the statistics.

5. Errors

   • Errors will show the number of document errors if any; if there is at least one error, you can click on the number and go to the Error Page.

6. Statistics

   • It will show all the information available about the current crawl, including crawl type, documents per second, start time, jobs status, etc. 

7. Start Full Crawl

   • Starts a full crawl, but before that it will show a warning indicating all incremental indexing data will be deleted.

8. Start Incremental Crawl

   • Starts an incremental crawl.

9. Start Test Crawl

   • Starts a Test Crawl that will ask how many documents to crawl and how many to skip before it starts to crawl.

10. Copy

    • Creates a new content source with the same configuration.

11. Export

    • Downloads a zip file with the configuration of the content source that you can use to import it into a different aspire instance.

12. Enable/Disable

    • It will enable or disable the content source. (you can only disable the content source if it's status is new, completed, error, failed or canceled)
      

13. Delete

    • If you click the delete button a confirmation will appear, if you click OK the delete will proceed and the content source will be deleted.

States

The content sources can be in one of several states. In each state, some controls change and some are disabled. In the section above, we saw the controls of a content source. In this section, we will see which are the controls for each state.

Grouping

1. • The display name of the group, if the name is to long the name will appear follow by an ellipsis (e.g. ABC...), and if the mouse is over the name, a tool-tip will appear with the full name. The Group Name is also a link that will expand the content source, so we can see the content source inside it.

2. Number of Content Sources

   • The group will display the number of content sources that has contained.

3. Expand

   • If clicked, it will expand the content source, so we can see the content source inside it.

4. Add to Group

   • If clicked, Add to Group will open the group menu, and put the name of the group so we can only choose the content sources and click on Add Group.

5. Content Sources Status

   • Has well as the number of content sources the group will have the status of the content sources and how many content sources inside him has that specific status

     1. Green: Stands for the Running status.

     2. Blue: Stands for the Paused status.

     3. Red: Stands for the three unsuccessful status Error, Failed and Aborted.

     4. Orange: Stands for the three transitory status Pausing, Resuming and Stopping.

     5. White: Stands for the idle status New and Completed and Cancelled.

     6. Gray: Stands for the Disabled status.

6. Ungroup

   • If clicked, Ungroup will take all the content sources inside the group and put them in the first level (root), and it will delete the group.

Manage a Group

This section walks through the steps necessary to create, use and dispose of a group, and how to interact with the group itself.

Step 1: Select the content sources

Click on the Group button in the Action Bar, a text field will appear, and the bottom of all the content sources will change into a check box that says Group. Select the content sources you want to group together by checking the Group check box, then put the name of the group in the text field next to the Group button.

Step 2: Create the group

Once you have selected the content sources and filled the name, you can click on Add Group, this will fade out and in the content source, and a group card will appear at the end of the content sources. This will be the group you just create with all the selected content sources inside it.

Step 3: Expand the group

Once we have the group created we can expand it by clicking on the Group Name or by clicking on the expand button , this will fade out and in the content sources and display only the content sources inside the group. Also a legend will appear in the Action Bar indicating in which group we are in now, right next to the legend is the Return turn button , if we click on it, it will return us to the first level (root).

Also while we are in the expanded group we can see that the content source has another button right before the copy button, this button is the Ungroup One button , it looks exactly as the Return button , this button will remove the content source from the group and put it on the first level (root)

Step 4: Remove the group

If you want to remove a group, the only way is to ungroup the entire group by clicking the Ungroup button , this will move all the content sources from our group to the first level (root) and delete the group.

Filtering

In Admin UI, you can filter  the content sources, and we can apply several filters for a more accurate result.

Text Filter (Search)

You can do regex searches based on the Content Source Name and the Group Name. To make a search, put the regex you want in the text field on the top right corner of the Action Bar and press the Enter key. Only the content sources that match the regex will be displayed.

Cookie Filters

The cookie filters are regular filters that will be saved in a cookie so once we apply a cookie filter, this will be active until we remove it. We can access the cookie filters by clicking on the Filter button ,

We have 3 categories of cookie filters explained below.

General filters

We have 3 general filters:

1. Active:  If checked shows all the content sources that are active (Checked by default )
2. Groups:  If checked shows all the groups. (Checked by default)
3. Inactive:  If checked shows all the content sources that are inactive (Checked by default)

Status filters

The status filters has all the possible status for the content sources, also it will have the All filter (Checked by default), if any of the status filters is checked, it will unchecked the All filter and only the content sources matching the checked status will be displayed. If the All filter is checked again, it will unchecked all the status filters.

Connector filters

The connector filters will be build according to the types of content sources available for the aspire account, but it will always have the All filter (Checked by default), if any of the connector filters is checked, it will unchecked the All filter and only the content sources matching the checked connector types will be displayed. If the All filter is checked again, it will unchecked all the connector filters.

Time filters

The time filters can be applied for start and end time of the crawl.

• Start Time: (Unchecked by default) Compares the time given with the start time of the content source, if the time given is after or the exact time of the content source, the content source will be display, if we check the Start Time filter but we don't give a start time, the filter won't be applied. Also if the content source doesn't have a start time, the content source won't be displayed.
  • To set the date and time of the filter click on the calendar button (2)
  • To enable the filter check the filter (1)
     
• End Time: (Unchecked by default) Compares the time given with the end time of the content source, if the time given is before or the exact time of the content source, the content source will be display, if we check the End Time filter but we don't give a start time, the filter won't be applied. Also if the content source doesn't have a end time, the content source won't be displayed.
  • To set the date and time of the filter click on the calendar button (2)
  • To enable the filter check the filter (1)

Import

In Admin UI, we can import a content source zip file and load the content source directly to our management page.

Add Source

With Add Source, select the type of content source you want by choosing the connector. The Add Source menu has three main sections.

1. Add Source
   • Access the Source Menu from the Add Source button
2. Legacy Connectors
   • These connector will be identified with a LEGACY label, which means these connector haven't been updated to use the new connector framework.
3. New Connectors
   • These connectors have been updated to use the new connector framework. 
4. . Artifact Id
   • Indicates the maven Artifact Id of the connector.
5. Legacy Label
   
   • The Legacy label will indicate which connectors are not updated to use the new connector framework.
6. Custom
   • It will open a menu to install a custom connector from maven coordinates or a set of config files.
7. Refresh Sources: 
   • With the Refresh button we can update the list of the connectors available for us.

Custom Connector

Click Custom to open a window where you can choose between two methods to install a custom connector repository and configuration files. Both show as toggle buttons at the top of the window.