Posted in OmniFind Discovery Edition, Search & Discovery Strategy, tagged LinkedIn on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Setting up and using Site Search is a black box mystery for many people. That makes it very difficult to know if you are falling into a huge pit or missing a golden opportunity. To help judge where you might be I’ve put together a list of mistakes and missed opportunities.
10. Assuming that you will [...]
Posted in OmniFind Discovery Edition on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ever run out of space on your servers because of too many snapshots?
Try this feature to limit how many will be kept after builds.
ADMIN_MAX_DEPLOYMENT_DIRS
Link to IBM InfoCenter entry
Posted in OmniFind Discovery Edition, tagged omnifind, Site Search, Websphere Commerce on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been having a blast writing a couple of search apps lately.
If you’ve read my other entries you already know that I favor separating the User Interface, Search, and Data layers more distinctly than the ODE bean that puts ODE objects into a JSP’s request object. Now I have a more pragmatic reason. Have you [...]
Posted in OmniFind Discovery Edition on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You can see changes via the Management Console but there is also another way — if you don’t mind reading XML. Go to
managementConsoleChanges.xml
Located in your project’s directory at deployment/[projectName]/[projectName]
Posted in OmniFind Discovery Edition on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Say you are indexing a database or XML file and you want a specific column or XML node element displayed on the search results page but you don’t want to that column to be searchable.
The first step is to make sure the column or XML element is included in your features.txt file. This tells ODE [...]
Posted in OmniFind Discovery Edition on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you are just getting started with ODE, then you may not have run into this:
The changes you made to key files such as default.prp may be overwritten when you apply fixpacks.
This isn’t really a problem if you know about it ahead of time. Just create a separate file with your settings for each [...]
Posted in OmniFind Discovery Edition on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Next week I’m starting a series on tidbits and tips for OmniFind Discovery Edition that I have found helpful. It’s not always easy to locate information you need when looking in the ODE InfoCenter. It’s often there but unless you know what you are looking for it takes some sleuthing. To make it easier I’ve [...]
