Fields

Document fields found on file documents are fixed. The following fields are present on each file document in the search index.

Identification Fields

Scheme

All Dovetail Seeker documents have a scheme field. File documents have a scheme field value of file.

Domain

All Dovetail Seeker documents have a domain field. File documents have a domain field whose value matches the identification element's displayName attribute.

Id

All Dovetail Seeker documents have a id field. Attachment documents have a domain field whose value is the full file system path to the attachment.

File Document Fields

All file documents have the following fields present.

Required Fields

Required fields are common to all search documents in your Dovetail Seeker search index.

Summary and Contents

The Summary and Content fields are populated with the text extracted from file being indexed. The length of this text copied to the summary field can be controlled via configuration.

Title

The title field is populated from the extracted file's metadata. When no title is found in the metadata the file name of the file is used.

File Detail Fields

All file documents have the following fields which allow search users to search for file documents by their file specific characteristics.

Path

All file documents have a path field whose value is the full filesystem path to the file which was indexed. Example: \\server\share\filename.pdf

This value is used by the Dovetail Seeker Web Service to serve the file when requested to do so.

File Name

All file documents have a filename field whose value is the filename of the file which was indexed. Example: filename.pdf

Extension

All file documents have a extension field whose value is the extension of the file which was indexed. Example: pdf

Content Type

All file documents have a contentType field whose value is the MIME type of the file which was indexed. Example: application/pdf

Content Length

All file documents have a contentLength field whose value is the number of bytes representing the size of the file on disk.

See Also

File Document Specifications

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