Content Component 26.1
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# TermGetInfo

When you index text into the Content component, it stores each term that the text contains with a weight that indicates the relevance that this term has to index content.

The `TermGetInfo` action allows you to return the weight of specified terms, the number of documents that the terms occur in, and the total number of times that the terms occur.

NOTE: If you have a custom stemming library that can return multiple stems, by default `TermGetInfo` returns only the first (primary) stem that the library returns. You can set Boolean to `True` to return additional stems. In this case, OpenText also recommends that you set Type to `None` to allow you to easily identify different stems, which all have the same value for the `startpos` attribute. See CustomStemming.

## Example

    http://12.3.4.56:9100/action=TermGetInfo&Text=cat

This action requests statistical information about the term `cat` from Content.

## Required Parameters

The following action parameters are required.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
Text | The terms whose weights return.

## Optional Parameters

This action accepts the following optional parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
Boolean | Whether the Text parameter contains a Boolean expression.
CustomWeight | Whether to use your custom term weight file, if one exists.
DetectLanguageType | Whether to detect the language type of the Text.
LanguageType | The language type of the terms.
MatchID | A list of documents to return term occurrence information for.
MatchReference | A list of document references to return term occurrence information for.
MaxTerms | The maximum number of terms to return statistical information for.
MinDocOccs | The minimum number of documents that a term must occur in for term information to return.
MinTermLength | The minimum length, after stemming, that a term can have.
OnlyExisting | Whether to return only terms that already exist in Content.
OutputEncoding | The encoding to convert results to.
ReferenceField | Restricts the MatchReference parameter to the specified reference field.
ShowQueryWeights | Whether to show unmodified query weights, or suggestions weights.
StateMatchID | A state token for which term information returns.
StateMatchOriginalSection | Whether to use only sections from a state token that were matched in the original query.
Stemming | Whether to stem the terms in the result list.
Synchronous | Whether to run the action synchronously or asynchronously.
TermPositions | Whether to return the field codes and positions of the occurrences of a term in a single document.
TextParse | Whether the Text parameter contains plain text, or as an IDX or XML document.
Type | The value that determines the term weighting.
Weights | Whether to return weight information for the term.

This action accepts the following standard ACI action parameters.

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
ActionID | A string to use to identify an ACI action.
FileName | The file to write output to.
ForceTemplateRefresh | Forces the server to load the template from disk.
Output | Writes output to a file.
ResponseFormat | The format of the action output.
Template | The template to use for the action output.
TemplateParamCSVs | A list of variables to use for the specified template.

## Comments

NOTE: If you use a Distributed Action Handler (DAH) to distribute the `TermGetInfo` action, you cannot use any parameters that specify the IDs of documents. Use parameters that identify documents by their reference instead.

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Version 26.1 | Last updated January 2026

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Content Component 26.1

Topic Title: TermGetInfo