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Content Source Manager

This is the landing page for the Admin User Interface (UI). This page displays the content source "cards" that show current status, start time, running time, jobs completed, errors and more.

  • You can create, sort, search, filter, group, view, and control the content sources.
  • You can even change each content source card's position 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

  1. Aspire Logo
    • Normally is a link to the Home page, depending of the section in which you are. for Manager it does nothing.
  2. Current User
    • Indicates the current user log in.
  3. 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
  4. Aspire Wiki
    • Will open a new tab to the wiki
  5. Debug Console
    • Access Aspire Debug in a new tab
  6. Refresh
    • Reload just the content sources, without reloadin the whole page
  7. Group
    • Enables the grouping option for all the content sources
  8. Import
    • Imports a .zip file with the configuration for a content source
  9. Add Source
    • Opens the menu with all the available connectors to create a content source
  10. Search
    • Filters the content sources based on the search string (can be a plain text or a regex expresion)
  11. Filter
    • Opens the menu to all the filters available
  12. 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).

GeneralGeneral

ConnectorConnector

workflowWorkflow

Top Bar Configuration

On the top bar we will find the general functionality as well as helpful information from the content source

Functionalities

  1. Aspire Logo
    • A link to the Home page (Content Source Manager).
  2. Current Content Source
    • Displays the icon of the connector type and the name of the content source
  3. Current User
    • Indicates the current user log in.
  4. 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
  5. Home
    • A link to the Home page (Content Source Manager).
  6. Aspire Wiki
    • Will open a new tab to the wiki
  7. Debug Console
    • Access Aspire Debug in a new tab
  8. Return
    • Checks the configuration for changes, if none, returns to the Home page, else, ask if you want to discard the changes.
  9. Done
    • Checks the configuration for changes, if none, returns to the Home page, else, ask if you want to discard the changes.
  10. Save
    • Save or Updates the content source
  11. Directory
    • Access other sections of Aspire (Service, OS License, Developer tools, Servers and About.)

Saving the content source will not redirect to the Home page

Clicking on save will not save the Workflow, the workflow saves automatically with each change.

 

 

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.

 

  1. Step Indicators
    • Each step of configuration will be display over here, you can click and move to any step directly
  2. Name
    • This will be the display name of the content source
  3. Enable
    1. Selected by default, Will indicate if the content source must be enable or disable.
  4. 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
      1. Scheduled: a list with all the time options for the scheduler.
        1. Manually: No additional options.
        2. Periodically: Specify the "Run every:" options by entering the number of "hours" and "minutes."
        3. Daily: Specify the "Start time:" by clicking on the hours and minutes drop-down lists and selecting options.
        4. 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.
        5. Advanced: Enter a custom CRON Expression (e.g. 0 0 0 ? * *)
      2. Action: a list of the possible actions to be performed by the current scheduler (Start, StopPause, or Resume).
      3. Crawl: a list of the types of crawl to be executed by the current scheduler (Incremental, FullReal Time, or Cache Groups).
  5. 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
  6. Next Step
    1. Clicking area, to move to the next step

Crawl options can change between content sources depending of the connector used. And Action options will be available depending of the Crawl type selected.

The System Name can not be changed, and it will be available after the content source is saved

You can change between types of Scheduled and it will maintain the same time relationship, and you and go to Advanced to see the CRON expression

 

 

 


  1. 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.
  2. Test Connection
    • Test the connection with the current configuration. Test connection will be always at the end of the configuration, if available.

 

 

The content source must be created before doing a Test connection, if the content source is still not created you would probable need to save it first.

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

  1. Scanner
    • This section represents the scanner component inside the connector, which retrieves the information.
  2. After Scan
    • Step between the Scanner and the Fetch Content, you can add your own rules and apps inside this step.
  3. Fetch Content
    • This section represents the fetch content component that retrieves the document information. 
  4. 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.
  5. On Delete
    • Step in which goes all the document that were delete, you can add your own rules and apps inside this step.
  6. 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.
  7. On Error
    • Step in which goes all errors thrown during the workflow process.
  8. Previous Step
    • Clicking areas, to move to the previous step

For more information about the Workflow please check Workflow page

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

  1. Aspire Logo
    • A link to the Home page (Content Source Manager).
  2. Current Content Source
    • Displays the icon of the connector type and the name of the content source
  3. Current User
    • Indicates the current user log in.
  4. 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
  5. Home
    • A link to the Home page (Content Source Manager).
  6. Aspire Wiki
    • Will open a new tab to the wiki
  7. Debug Console
    • Access Aspire Debug in a new tab
  8. Refresh
    • Refresh the page in case the content source has updated the error log.
  9. 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.
  10. Page Size
    • Control the page size in the sizes of 25, 50, 75 and 100 documents per page.
  11. Clear File
    • Delete the current error document (Category)
  12. 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.

  1. Error
    • This whole section represents an error in the log document
  2. 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.
  3. Paging
    • Paging will allow you to move more quickly between pages an move from the oldest error to the newest with just one click

 

  1. Expand Error
    1. To expand an error and see more detailed information just click on the plus sign, right next to the sequence ID
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