About the Contentful Connector

Features

• Enables searching for Entries stored in a Contentful space.
• Content to be indexed can be filtered by Content Type.

• Asset content is downloaded and indexed as an attachment with the item that it is referenced in. You can turn off the feature to download embargoed assets.

• All content remains in the space. 

Security

The connector only returns published entries. All items indexed will be marked as Public.

Limitations

• Only Published items are returned. 
• Location field values are returned as coordinates
• Entry comments are not retrieved
• The escabase_url metadata Provides context with details such as the source, type, owner, and relationships to other data sets. Metadata provides details around the item being crawled by Connectivity Hub. displays the source system Your Source System is the repository where your data is stored (data to be indexed). This repository is managed by applications such as: - SharePoint O365 - SharePoint 2013/16/19 - Documentum - File Share - OpenText - Lotus Notes - etc. Your Source System repository can also be a database such as SQL or Oracle. URL and not the Contentful Preview URL.
• Because the Preview URL is highly customizable in Contentful we recommend using scripting to generate the URL metadata to match the Preview URL using a base URL and metadata.
• The Contentful connector is not compatible with any version of the Connector Framework, it is only compatible with Connectivity Hub 3.0 and later.

Metadata

All fields added in the Content Model are returned as metadata. 

You must run a Datastore Types Load Collects the types of data from your source system. Runs on a set schedule. Requires a log level which logs information task to pick up changes made to the Content Model. 

Metadata property	Value Type	Description
ID	String	The ID of the Entry.
ContentType	String	The Content Type of the Entry.
Tags	String multi value	Tags assigned to an Entry.
Title	String	The value of the field assigned as the Title Field for the Content Type.
Locale	String	The locale of the entry. This is specified on the content filter page for your content source Content Sources do the following: Receive data from the Source System via the Connection, Filter the data it receives, Provide the results to the Target, Define the specific search index that contains the content you wish to index (and later search).. If no value is specified, the connector will use the locale configured in your Contentful source system. For more information see How to filter content from a Content Source in the Connectivity Hub documentation. Note: If you do not have a fallback locale configured in Contentful, some fields may be missing during metadata retrieval.