How to Filter Your Content Using Content Filters

Crawling your content sources may result in capturing content or content types you may not want.

  • To filter for the specific content you want to crawl, using the Content Filter feature, described below.

  • Depending on the connector you are using, the filter options that appear (as shown in the graphic below) will vary.

  • If you make any changes to your Content Filters page, you must run a full crawl by running a target job to update the index.

Procedure:

  1. Navigate to the Content Sources.

  2. Click <your Web Service Connector>> Edit.

    1. Click the Content Filters tab.

  3. The Content type tree shown in the graphic below appears only for is you are using certain connectors, such as SharePoint, Confluence, etc..

    • The Content type tree contains content types from your source connection.

    • This is populated when you run the datastore types load job from either the Tasks or Connections heading links at the top of the screen.

      See the Content Filters page.

    Note: These fields are optional.

  4. Content types: Leave the default Include All, or choose to include/exclude using the Shift key for multiple selections.

  5. Datastores selection:

    1. Break up your content sources into datastore groups or individual datastores.

    2. This setting only applies to datastores that you flag as active for this connection.

    3. You must separate these datastore IDs using commas (,).

  6. Custom Filters: Use the control to specify your filters and their separators. 
  7. Save and run a full crawl target job using the Setting up a target section.