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.
• Fetches access control lists (ACLs) for document-level security (For this feature you need to configure the LDAP credentials in the connector UI section "Extract ACL").
• 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

Exclude

• Example Doc TypeOnly exclude Trash documents

Limitations 

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

• Example limitation
  • Example Reason

Operation Mode 

 The connector will use the ATOM API over HTTP or HTTPS to communicate with IBM Connections. The connector acquires content by doing the following:

Future Development Plan 

• Go recursively through all items and documents of an eRoom site, creates sub-jobs for each object discovered. Each sub-job contains all metadata available, including ACLs.
• Saves the item states into a MongoDB instance in order to compare and perform the incremental crawls with added, updated and deleted items.

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

• Example future plan

Anything we should add? Please let us know.