The IBM Connections connector will crawl content from IBM Connections server. 

Features

The IBM Connections connector will crawl content from any IBM Connections applications (Activities, Blogs, Bookmarks, Communities, Files, Forums, Profiles, and Wikis).

Note that the IBM Connections connector is not part of Aspire Enterprise bundle, however it may be purchased separately.

Some of the features of the IBM Connections connector include:

• Performs incremental crawling (so that only new/updated/deleted documents are indexed)
• Metadata extraction.
• Is search engine independent
• Runs from any machine with access to the given IBM Connections Site
• Filter the crawled documents by file names using regex patterns.

Content Retrieved

The IBM Connections connector retries several types of documents, listed bellow are the inclusions and exclusions of these documents.

Include

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Exclude

• Example Doc Type

Limitations 

Due to API limitations, IBM Connections connector has the following limitations:

• Example limitation
  • Example Reason

Future Development Plan 

The following features are not currently implemented, but are on the development plan:

• Example future plan

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