Wiki source code of 04. Manual Index Creation
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1.1 | 1 | To manually create indexes without using one of the [[Wizards>>doc:Technical Documentation.CXAIR.Administration Guide.Wizards.WebHome]], the Data Source, Data Source Group and resulting Index can all be created separately. |
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| 3 | This is especially useful if a custom configuration is required, allowing multiple separate Data Sources to be contained within a single Data Source Group before being added to an Index, for example. | ||
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| 5 | The following chapters detail the manual creation of Index components: | ||
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| 7 | = Creating a Data Source = | ||
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| 9 | In the [[Data Sources screen>>doc:.a\. Creating a Data Source.WebHome]], the source data type is established and the configuration options are set accordingly. | ||
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| 11 | = Creating a Data source Group = | ||
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| 13 | The [[Data Source Groups screen>>doc:.b\. Creating a Data Source Group.WebHome]] contains a number of options to further configure and analyse grouped Data Sources with additional field options. | ||
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| 15 | = Creating an Index = | ||
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| 17 | Add configured Data Source Groups to an [[Index>>doc:.c\. Creating an Index.WebHome]] to configure a number of options including Filter Values and Display Field Layouts. | ||
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| 19 | = Creating a Search Engine = | ||
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| 21 | [[Search Engines>>doc:.4d\. Creating a Search Engine.WebHome]] group Indexes together to create a logical collection of searchable data. Search Engines are the easiest way of partitioning up data from a security perspective, as administrators can restrict which Search Engines a user, or group of users, have access to. |