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Indexing Your Documents
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About Collection Attributes
Server documents can be in a variety of formats, such as HTML, Microsoft
Excel, Adobe PDF, and WordPerfect provided that there is a conversion filter
available for a particular file format. With the filters, the server converts the
documents into HTML as it indexes them so that you can use your web browser
to view the documents that are found for your search. Enterprise Server does
not include a standard set of filters for converting different file types to HTML
for search indexing and web publisher conversion. If you want to use these
capabilities, you can purchase filters from Verity. For more information, see
http://www.verity.com/netscapefilters
. Once you get the filters
you must configure your system to be able to use them. See “Installing Filters”
on page 406 for more information.
Complex PDF files, such as those that are password protected or that contain
graphical navigation elements cannot be correctly converted when they are
indexed as part of a multi-format collection. The file data converts correctly
when they are part of a PDF-only collection. Graphic elements are not
converted.
Certain file formats have a default set of attributes that are indexed for files of
that type, as shown in Table 16.2.
Table 16.2 The default attributes indexed for each file format
File format Attribute Type Description
ASCII (none) - -
HTML
Title
text The user-defined title of the file.
SourceType
text The original format of the document. Used by the
web publishing and other multi-format collections.
NEWS
From
text The source userID of the news item.
Subject
text The text from the subject field of the news item.
Keywords
text Any keywords defined for the news item
Date
date The date the news item was created.
EMAIL
From
text The source userID of the email.
To
text The destination userID of the email.
Subject
text The text from the email’s subject field.