Content Sources Dashboard

The BA Insight Content Sources dashboard is a great entry point for managing your Connectivity Hub content sources:

  • External, Web service content, such as:
    • SharePoint Online
    • SharePoint On-Premise
    • Documentum
    • File Share
    • OpenText
  • Built-in database content, such as OLEDB-type databases:
    • SQL
    • Oracle

The following table outlines the various columns found on the Content Source dashboard. Fields that have a icon can be filtered.

Column Description
Title The Title column can sort your Content Sources by Title name.
Type

The Type column can sort your Content Sources by type

  • Web service content
  • Advanced Web service content
  • SQL content (OLEDB databases)
Connection The Connection column can sort your Content Sources by Connection name.
Target The Target column can sort your Content Sources by Target name.
Target index The Target Index Column is the destination index where the content is being pushed. The Target Index is automatically computed from the content source title.
Sync Status The Sync Status column indicates whether jobs needed to update search index for the specific content source are configured and enabled.
Scheduled sync The Scheduled Sync column enables sync jobs to be automatically created/enabled by clicking the Start button and ended/disabled by the clicking the Stop button.
One time sync

The One Time Sync column provides you with a drop-down menu to run an update. The sync options available include:

  • Target Full Update

  • Target Incremental Update

Actions

The Actions column provides you with a drop-down menu to perform the following actions:

  • Edit: Open your content source for modification
  • Delete: Delete your content source
  • Test: Open your content source for testing using test bench.
  • Tasks: Opens the Timer Jobs screen where you can:
    • Add a new job
    • Refresh jobs
    • See active jobs
    • See a history of jobs
  • Metadata: Opens the Metadata screen where you can:
    • Manually create new metadata for your content source
    • Automatically generate metadata for your content source
    • Import metadata from other content sources
    • Purge (delete) metadata.