Document Specifications

Document specifications are defined using XML. The location of this specification file defaults to your documentSpecification.xml in your seeker config directory.

Dovetail Seeker indexing applications use document specifications like a set of instructions. There are two types of document specifications:

• The Dovetail document specification tells the indexer how to transform a Dovetail CRM entity from database records into a dovetail document in the index.
• The File document specification tells the indexer the location of files whose text will be extracted and used to created file documents in the index.

All specifications have optional description and tag values.

Important: Be aware that when using the Dovetail Seeker Windows Service that changes to your document specification file will immediately affect your index.

Visual Studio Intellisense

You can use any text editor to edit the file. We recommend you use Visual Studio to enable intellisense for editing the file. Visual Studio gives you hints to what nodes are available and errors when the file is invalid.

The DocumentSpecifications.xsd in your seeker administrator directory is an XML schema file to validate the document specification file. Visual Studio can use this file to enable intellisense to help edit the document specification file.

To enable the XSD in Visual Studio, copy the file to the schema folder in your Visual Studio installation path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9\Xml\Schemas ( or "Microsoft Visual Studio 8" for VS2005).

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