Storage of Document Content

See AlsoDisk Usage in IDOL

You can reduce the amount of storage space that IDOL required by not storing the majority of the document content in IDOL. Some functionality is unavailable for non-stored content, but in some cases there are alternative methods that you can use.

There are two methods you can use in IDOL to disable storage of document content:

The following article describes the functionality that is restricted when you do not store document content.

Summarization

You cannot use any of the query time summary options for fields that are not stored (the Summary parameter for the query actions, set to Context, Concept, and so on).

As an alternative to query time summarization, you can generate a quick summary as part of the ingest process, and store it in a stored field so that is available in queries.

If the text from the original document is available, then you can use the Summarize action.

Highlight

You cannot use any of the query time highlight options for fields that are not stored (the Highlight parameter for the query actions, set to Term, SummaryTerms, and so on).

You can send the text from the original document by using the Highlight action (with or without the TextParse parameter depending on if you have the text or the IDX/XML available elsewhere).

You can also use the View Server View action for highlighting the original data file formats.

AdvancedSuggest

You cannot use the AdvancedSuggest configuration option if you do not store the source fields.

Query Summary

The QuerySummary options do not generally give good results (or might not function at all) if you do not store the source fields (the DRECONTENT field is usually a source field).

DREREPLACE

DREREPLACE index action to replace an index field causes an internal reindex of the document, which might mean that data is lost from the document.

You can still use DREREPLACE to add or remove values from optimized fields (MatchType, NumericType, and NumericDateType). For example, you can use DREDELETEFIELDVALUE/DREFIELDVALUE on NumericType fields and the corresponding search operators respect the changes. You cannot use DREREPLACE to add or remove values from non-stored ParametricType fields.

NOTE:

Replacing on an optimized field assumes that a value can appear only once in a document.

TIP:

As an alternative to the DREREPLACE index action, you can also use the wizard on the Replace tab on the Console page in the Control section of IDOL Admin to change field values or delete fields from indexed documents.

DREEXPORTIDX and DREEXPORTXML

The DREEXPORT index actions export only the data that is stored.

FieldText

Optimized FieldText operations on optimized field types work as normal. However, other field operations do not work.

You can use the EQUAL operator on a NumericType field, but you cannot use MATCH on a NumericType field. Similarly, you can use MATCH on a MatchType field, but not EQUAL.

Sort

You can only perform Sort operations on optimized field types.


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