The IBM Connections connector will crawl content from any IBM Connections applications (Activities, Blogs, Bookmarks, Communities, Files, Forums, Profiles, and Wikis), also will user's status and Events.
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:
The IBM Connections connector retries retrieves several types of documents, listed bellow below are the inclusions and exclusions of these documents.
Due to API limitations, IBM Connections connector has the following limitations:
Communities Events
User Status
The connector will use the ATOM API use the Seedlist service provider interface (SPI) provided with IBM Connections to integrate a search engine with IBM Connections content over HTTP or HTTPS to communicate with IBM Connections. The connector acquires content by doing the following:
http://<servername>/activities/seedlist/myserver
http://<servername>/blogs/seedlist/myserver
http://<servername>/dogear/seedlist/myserver
http://<servername>/communities/seedlist/myserver
http://<servername>/files/seedlist/myserver
http://<servername>/forums/seedlist/myserver
http://<servername>/profiles/seedlist/myserver
http://<servername>/wikis/seedlist/myserver
http://<servername>/dm/seedlist/myserver
http://<servername>/news/seedlist/myserver
http://<servername>/communities/calendar/seedlist/myserver
Due to API limitations, IBM Connections connector has the following limitations:
The following features are not currently implemented, but are on the development plan:
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