Adding connectors
Note: This topic is intended for administrators and developers with administration access rights in Episerver.
While Episerver Find pushes content to the search engine instantly, a connector crawls external websites on a specified schedule.
Configuring connectors
Configuring connectors
To access the Connectors screen, from the global menuA group of options that appears in the uppermost part of the user interface when logged in. The global menu displays products and systems integrated with your website. It also displays links to the user guide and user settings, and to a global search. See the User interface topic for further information., select Find > Configure > Connectors. To view on-screen help, click Show Help in the top right corner. The following points supplement the on-screen help.
- By default, two connector types are available: Crawler and RSS/Atom. The connector type determines which configuration options appear below theType drop-down.
- If you choose Crawler type, you can fine-tune indexing by excluding media types such as style sheets, JavaScript, and XML files.
See also: Media Types. Find excludes the following media types from indexing by default.
- text/css
- text/ecmascript
- text/javascript
- application/ecmascript
- application/javascript
- application/x-javascript
- application/x-pointplus
Click Advanced fine tuning of indexing to further limit indexing.
- Exclude query strings that are part of a link. For example, exclude crawling campaign tracking parameters (such as
utm_source, used by Google Campaigns) to avoid unintentionally updating a campaign counter. - Specify parts of a website to crawl but not index, or to not crawl at all. You may want to crawl but not index to index search links to other pages, but not the content on those pages.
- Specifying an indexing interval.
- Although you set a schedule in local time, it is converted to coordinated universal time (UTC) so it occurs at the same time regardless of server location. However, you must manually adjust local time when needed, such as for daylight savings time.
Viewing connectors and indexing jobs
Viewing connectors and indexing jobs
The connectors list (at the bottom of the screen) shows status and scheduling information for all indexing jobs.
- You can manually refresh a connector's indexing status. If completed, last completion time appears.
- You can edit or delete any connector from its context menu. For example, you can update its schedule.
- You can manually start and stop indexing jobs.
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