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Content Source Manager
This is the landing page the Admin UI, from where the user can create, sort, search, filter, group, view, and control the content sources. This page displays the content source "cards" that show current status, start time, running time, jobs completed, errors and more. You can even change each content source card's position to one more suitable by dragging the content source and dropping it over the content source you want to swap places with.
Top Bar Manager
Most of the functionality for the Manager section can be found in the top bar
Functionalities
- Aspire Logo
- Normally is a link to the Home page, depending of the section in which you are. for Manager it does nothing.
- Current User
- Indicates the current user log in.
- Server Connection
- Indicates the speed of the connection between the browser and the server
- GREEN: Less or equal to two seconds (>= 2s)
- YELLOW: From two to 4 seconds (< 2s and >= 4s)
- ORANGE: Higher than 4 seconds (< 5s)
- RED: No response fom the server
- Aspire Wiki
- Will open a new tab to the wiki
- Debug Console
- Access Aspire Debug in a new tab
- Refresh
- Reload just the content sources, without reloadin the whole page
- Group
- Enables the grouping option for all the content sources
- Import
- Imports a .zip file with the configuration for a content source
- Add Source
- Opens the menu with all the available connectors to create a content source
- Search
- Filters the content sources based on the search string (can be a plain text or a regex expresion)
- Filter
- Opens the menu to all the filters available
- Directory
- Access other sections of Aspire (Service, OS License, Developer tools, Servers and About.)
Content Source Configuration
Admin UI provides a wizard style configuration process to create a complete content source, divided in three main sections (General, Connector and Workflow).
General
Connector
Workflow
Top Bar Configuration
On the top bar we will find the general functionality as well as helpful information from the content source
Functionalities
- Aspire Logo
- A link to the Home page (Content Source Manager).
- Current Content Source
- Displays the icon of the connector type and the name of the content source
- Current User
- Indicates the current user log in.
- Server Connection
- Indicates the speed of the connection between the browser and the server
- GREEN: Less or equal to two seconds (>= 2s)
- YELLOW: From two to 4 seconds (< 2s and >= 4s)
- ORANGE: Higher than 4 seconds (< 5s)
- RED: No response fom the server
- Home
- A link to the Home page (Content Source Manager).
- Aspire Wiki
- Will open a new tab to the wiki
- Debug Console
- Access Aspire Debug in a new tab
- Return
- Checks the configuration for changes, if none, returns to the Home page, else, ask if you want to discard the changes.
- Done
- Checks the configuration for changes, if none, returns to the Home page, else, ask if you want to discard the changes.
- Save
- Save or Updates the content source
- Directory
- Access other sections of Aspire (Service, OS License, Developer tools, Servers and About.)
General Configuration
The General Configuration, will hold the basic information for the content source, and every content source will have the same General Configuration layout.
- Step Indicators
- Each step of configuration will be display over here, you can click and move to any step directly
- Name
- This will be the display name of the content source
- Enable
- Selected by default, Will indicate if the content source must be enable or disable.
- Schedulers
- Allows the user to create a scheduler for different crawls and actions and different time intervals.
- You can add more schedulers by clicking on the plus sign of Add New
- Scheduled: a list with all the time options for the scheduler.
- Manually: No additional options.
- Periodically: Specify the "Run every:" options by entering the number of "hours" and "minutes."
- Daily: Specify the "Start time:" by clicking on the hours and minutes drop-down lists and selecting options.
- Weekly: Specify the "Start time:" by clicking on the hours and minutes drop-down lists and selecting options, then clicking on the day checkboxes to specify days of the week to run the crawl.
- Advanced: Enter a custom CRON Expression (e.g. 0 0 0 ? * *)
- Action: a list of the possible actions to be performed by the current scheduler (Start, Stop, Pause, or Resume).
- Crawl: a list of the types of crawl to be executed by the current scheduler (Incremental, Full, Real Time, or Cache Groups).
- System Name
- This will be the name of the content source for the server, created from the display name provided. Only available after the content source is saved
- Next Step
- Clicking area, to move to the next step
Connector Configuration
The Connector Configuration, will hold the specific information for the content source, the Connector Configuration layout will change depending of the connector used.
- Step Indicators
- Each step of configuration will be display over here, you can click and move to any step directly
- Next & Previous Step
- Clicking areas, to move to the next or the previous step
The gray-out area "Connector Configuration" will load the connector specific configuration
Advanced Connector Properties
At the end of every Connector Configuration there is an extra section called Advanced Connector Properties, these properties
- Advanced Configuration
- Advanced Configuration will be always disable by default and it will used the default configuration. If the user wants to change the configuration it would just need to enable the checkbox.
- Test Connection
- Test the connection with the current configuration. Test connection will be always at the end of the configuration, if available.
Workflow Configuration
The workflow configuration is where the customization of the data is done, in here you can edit, delete, add, and publish information using our apps, scripts or even adding your own custom apps
- Scanner
- This section represents the scanner component inside the connector, which retrieves the information.
- After Scan
- Step between the Scanner and the Fetch Content, you can add your own rules and apps inside this step.
- Fetch Content
- This section represents the fetch content component that retrieves the document information.
- On Add Update
- Step in which goes all the document that were added of updated, you can add your own rules and apps inside this step.
- On Delete
- Step in which goes all the document that were delete, you can add your own rules and apps inside this step.
- On Publish
- Step in which goes all the document regardless if they were added, deleted or updated, you can add your own rules and apps inside this step.
- On Error
- Step in which goes all errors thrown during the workflow process.
- Previous Step
- Clicking areas, to move to the previous step
Content Source Error
Admin UI presents a more friendly way to display error logs, and more control to move around the pages.
Top Bar Error
On the top bar we can find general functionality as well as controls to visualize different error
Functionalities
- Aspire Logo
- A link to the Home page (Content Source Manager).
- Current Content Source
- Displays the icon of the connector type and the name of the content source
- Current User
- Indicates the current user log in.
- Server Connection
- Indicates the speed of the connection between the browser and the server
- GREEN: Less or equal to two seconds (>= 2s)
- YELLOW: From two to 4 seconds (< 2s and >= 4s)
- ORANGE: Higher than 4 seconds (< 5s)
- RED: No response fom the server
- Home
- A link to the Home page (Content Source Manager).
- Aspire Wiki
- Will open a new tab to the wiki
- Debug Console
- Access Aspire Debug in a new tab
- Refresh
- Refresh the page in case the content source has updated the error log.
- Error Categories
- Each category displays different errors with different causes
- Document
- Issues normal involving corrupted documents, security protected, missing links and others. This type of errors normally does not interrupt the crawl process
- Scanner
- Errors involving configuration that prevents the scanner to perform a crawl.
- Batch
- Problems with the batches normally thrown during the workflow process
- Failed
- Errors which prevents the content source from initialize the scanner.
- Page Size
- Control the page size in the sizes of 25, 50, 75 and 100 documents per page.
- Clear File
- Delete the current error document (Category)
- Directory
- Access other sections of Aspire (Service, OS License, Developer tools, Servers and About.)
Simplified Display
Admin UI simplifies the error display by hiding the information and just displaying the error identifier.
- Error
- This whole section represents an error in the log document
- Sequence ID and Date
- Every error has a sequence ID which it may change if the content source updates the log file, and a date of when the error was added to the log file.
- Paging
- Paging will allow you to move more quickly between pages an move from the oldest error to the newest with just one click
- Expand Error
- To expand an error and see more detailed information just click on the plus sign, right next to the sequence ID