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    SharePoint V1 Connector Configuration Reference

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    The SharePoint connector retrieves content and metadata from an on-premises SharePoint repository.

    Deprecation and removal notice

    This connector is deprecated as of Fusion 5.4 and is removed or expected to be removed as of Fusion 5.5. Use the SharePoint Optimized V2 connector instead.

    For more information about deprecations and removals, including possible alternatives, see Deprecations and Removals.

    Configuration

    When entering configuration values in the UI, use unescaped characters, such as \t for the tab character. When entering configuration values in the API, use escaped characters, such as \\t for the tab character.

    A crawler for Sharepoint 2010 and 2013 sites, lists, and libraries. (deprecated)

    description - string

    Optional description for this datasource.

    id - stringrequired

    Unique name for this datasource.

    >= 1 characters

    Match pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$

    parserId - string

    Parser used when parsing raw content. Retry parsing setting is available under crawl performance (advance setting)

    pipeline - stringrequired

    Name of an existing index pipeline for processing documents.

    >= 1 characters

    properties - Properties

    Datasource configuration properties

    chunkSize - integer

    The number of items to batch for each round of fetching. A higher value can make crawling faster, but memory usage is also increased. The default is 1.

    Default: 1

    commitAfterItems - integer

    Commit the crawlDB to disk after this many items have been received. A smaller number here will result in a slower crawl because of commits to disk being more frequent; conversely, a larger number here will cause a resumed job after a crash to need to recrawl more records.

    Default: 10000

    crawlDBType - string

    The type of crawl database to use, in-memory or on-disk.

    Default: on-disk

    Allowed values: on-diskin-memory

    db - Connector DB

    Type and properties for a ConnectorDB implementation to use with this datasource.

    aliases - boolean

    Keep track of original URI-s that resolved to the current URI. This negatively impacts performance and size of DB.

    Default: false

    inlinks - boolean

    Keep track of incoming links. This negatively impacts performance and size of DB.

    Default: false

    inv_aliases - boolean

    Keep track of target URI-s that the current URI resolves to. This negatively impacts performance and size of DB.

    Default: false

    type - string

    Fully qualified class name of ConnectorDb implementation.

    >= 1 characters

    Default: com.lucidworks.connectors.db.impl.MapDbConnectorDb

    dedupe - boolean

    If true, documents will be deduplicated. Deduplication can be done based on an analysis of the content, on the content of a specific field, or by a JavaScript function. If neither a field nor a script are defined, content analysis will be used.

    Default: false

    dedupeField - string

    Field to be used for dedupe. Define either a field or a dedupe script, otherwise the full raw content of each document will be used.

    dedupeSaveSignature - boolean

    If true,the signature used for dedupe will be stored in a 'dedupeSignature_s' field. Note this may cause errors about 'immense terms' in that field.

    Default: false

    dedupeScript - string

    Custom javascript to dedupe documents. The script must define a 'genSignature(content){}' function, but can use any combination of document fields. The function must return a string.

    delete - boolean

    Set to true to remove documents from the index when they can no longer be accessed as unique documents.

    Default: true

    deleteErrorsAfter - integer

    Number of fetch failures to tolerate before removing a document from the index. The default of -1 means no fetch failures will be removed.

    Default: -1

    depth - integer

    Number of levels in a directory or site tree to descend for documents.

    Default: -1

    diagnosticMode - boolean

    Enable to print more detailed information to the logs about each request.

    Default: false

    emitThreads - integer

    The number of threads used to send documents from the connector to the index pipeline. The default is 5.

    Default: 5

    enable_security_trimming - Enable Security Trimming

    f.cache_expiration_time - integer

    Time in seconds before the local and global security filter cache entries expire.

    Default: 7200

    f.cache_max_size - integer

    Maximum number of items to hold in the security filter cache.

    Default: 1000

    f.enable_sharepoint_security_trimming - boolean

    Enable indexing and query-time security-trimming of Sharepoint users/groups (i.e. in addition to users/groups in Active Directory)

    Default: true

    f.global_security_filter_cache - boolean

    Enable shared caching of access-control filters across datasources. This cache will be shared with other SharePoint datasources.

    Default: false

    f.ldap_follow_referrals - boolean

    Indicates whether or not to follow LDAP referrals. Select this checkbox to "follow" referrals and un-select it to "ignore" referrals.

    Default: true

    f.ldap_host - string

    Hostname of the LDAP or AD server where user information is stored.

    f.ldap_port - integer

    Port for the LDAP or AD server.

    Default: 389

    f.ldap_read_groups_type - string

    Mode for reading groups from LDAP or AD.

    Default: TOKEN_GROUPS

    f.ldap_search_base - string

    Base node for LDAP or AD user and group searches.

    f.ldap_use_ssl - boolean

    Enable to use SSL when connecting to the LDAP or AD server.

    Default: false

    f.security_filter_cache - boolean

    Cache of document access control rules. This cache will not be shared with any other SharePoint datasources.

    Default: false

    f.user_group_cache - boolean

    When this option is selected, the crawl process will store all user's LDAP and SharePoint groups a Solr sidecar collection such that a user's groups do not need to be looked up at query time. This is not to be mistaken with the other global and local security-filter caches of which cache the access-control filter of the user.

    Default: true

    f.user_group_cache_collection_name - string

    The name of the solr collection that will store this datasources' user group cache. This user group cache collection can be shared with other datasources. There is a `ds_id_s` field that is used to query user/groups separately.

    Default: sp_usr_grp_{datasource}

    excludeExtensions - array[string]

    File extensions that should not to be fetched. This will limit this datasource to all extensions except this list.

    excludeRegexes - array[string]

    Regular expressions for URI patterns to exclude. This will limit this datasource to only URIs that do not match the regular expression.

    f.avoid_ssl_hostname_verification - boolean

    Enable this in cases when the CN on the SSL certificate does not match the host name of the server.

    Default: true

    f.bulkStartLinks - string

    If a large number of start links must be defined, you can provide them here. One link per line.

    f.domain - string

    Authentication domain for the Sharepoint user.

    f.enable_http_headers_debugging - boolean

    Prints DEBUG level information to the logs.

    Default: false

    f.enable_retry - boolean

    Enable this to make the connector automatically try again if a request to sharepoint fails unexpectedly.

    Default: false

    f.firstLoginUrl - string

    You will need to specify this property if your SharePoint instance has Forms authentication enabled. This will resolve the error: "Before opening files in this location you must first browse to the web site and select the option to login automatically". If your sharepoint url is http://sphost/sites/test_site the first login URL will be http://sphost/_windows/default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f_layouts%2f15%2fAuthenticate.aspx%3fSource%3d%252Fsites%252Ftest%255Fsite%252F&Source=%2Fsites%2Ftest_site%2F

    f.index_items_discarded - boolean

    Enable to index discarded document metadata

    Default: true

    f.kerberosEnabled - boolean

    This tells the web connector to enable Spnego/Kerberos authentication scheme.

    f.kerberosKeytabBase64 - string

    This value is set as the base64 string of the to a keytab file of your principal that is used to authenticate. Optionally you can supply the keytab file path in the "Kerberos Keytab File Path" property, or the "Kerberos Password".

    f.kerberosKeytabFile - string

    This value is set as the file path on the server to a keytab file of the principal that is used to authenticate. Optionally you can supply the keytab as a base64 encoded string in the "Kerberos Keytab in Base64" property, or the "Kerberos Password".

    f.kerberosLoginContextName - string

    If you are using a login configuration file with the JVM property "java.security.auth.login.config" then this value will tell what login context name to choose from this file when authenticating with Kerberos.

    f.kerberosPassword - string

    The password of the principal to use when authenticating with kerberos. You can also specify a keytab in the "Kerberos Keytab File Path" or "Kerberos Keytab in Base64" properties.

    f.kerberosPrincipal - string

    When this value is specified along with a keytab, this value is the "Kerberos Principal" of the login user that has authorization to crawl your web site(s). If you do not specify this when kerberos/spnego is enabled, the default principal name will be used.

    f.kerberosSpn - string

    If you specify this value, this service principal name (SPN) will be used. If not specified, the resource you are accessing will be used to create this value from the client. An example of an SPN would be: "http@your.realm.com"

    f.log_sharepoint_xml - boolean

    When analyzing Sharepoint crawls, it can be helpful to log the Soap XML messages between Fusion and Sharepoint. By selecting this, Sharepoint will log the xml of all messages to the connectors log.

    Default: false

    f.maxSizeBytes - integer

    Maximum size, in bytes, of a document to crawl.

    Default: 4194304

    f.minSizeBytes - integer

    Minimum size, in bytes, of a document to crawl.

    Default: 0

    f.password - string

    Password for the Sharepoint user.

    f.proxyHost - string

    The address to use when connecting through the proxy.

    f.proxyPort - integer

    The port to use when connecting through the proxy. (HTTP or SOCKS)

    f.remove_prepended_ids - boolean

    If fields have been defined to include PrependIds, this option will remove those IDs before indexing.

    Default: true

    f.replace_invalid_xml_entities - boolean

    Replace invalid xml entities to avoid the error: \"Unmarshalling Error: Illegal character entity: expansion character ...\"

    Default: false

    f.retry_attempts - integer

    If Retry requests is enabled, this number determines how many times the connector should retry a request before giving up.

    Default: 4

    f.sharepoint_services_timeout - integer

    Time in milliseconds to wait for a server response.

    Default: 600000

    f.username - string

    Name of a Sharepoint user who has the required permissions to access Sharepoint via the SOAP API.

    failFastOnStartLinkFailure - boolean

    If true, when Fusion cannot connect to any of the provided start links, the crawl is stopped and an exception logged.

    Default: true

    fetchDelayMS - integer

    Number of milliseconds to wait between fetch requests. The default is 0. This property can be used to throttle a crawl if necessary.

    Default: 0

    fetchThreads - integer

    The number of threads to use during fetching. The default is 5.

    Default: 5

    forceRefresh - boolean

    Set to true to recrawl all items even if they have not changed since the last crawl.

    Default: false

    forceRefreshClearSignatures - boolean

    If true, signatures will be cleared if force recrawl is enabled.

    Default: true

    includeExtensions - array[string]

    File extensions to be fetched. This will limit this datasource to only these file extensions.

    includeRegexes - array[string]

    Regular expressions for URI patterns to include. This will limit this datasource to only URIs that match the regular expression.

    indexCrawlDBToSolr - boolean

    EXPERIMENTAL: Set to true to index the crawl-database into a 'crawldb_<datasource-ID>' collection in Solr.

    Default: false

    initial_mapping - Initial field mapping

    Provides mapping of fields before documents are sent to an index pipeline.

    condition - string

    Define a conditional script that must result in true or false. This can be used to determine if the stage should process or not.

    label - string

    A unique label for this stage.

    <= 255 characters

    mappings - array[object]

    List of mapping rules

    Default: {"operation":"move","source":"charSet","target":"charSet_s"}{"operation":"move","source":"fetchedDate","target":"fetchedDate_dt"}{"operation":"move","source":"lastModified","target":"lastModified_dt"}{"operation":"move","source":"signature","target":"dedupeSignature_s"}{"operation":"move","source":"length","target":"length_l"}{"operation":"move","source":"mimeType","target":"mimeType_s"}{"operation":"move","source":"parent","target":"parent_s"}{"operation":"move","source":"owner","target":"owner_s"}{"operation":"move","source":"group","target":"group_s"}

    object attributes:{operation : {
     display name: Operation
     type: string
    }
    source required : {
     display name: Source Field
     type: string
    }
    target : {
     display name: Target Field
     type: string
    }
    }

    reservedFieldsMappingAllowed - boolean

    Default: false

    skip - boolean

    Set to true to skip this stage.

    Default: false

    unmapped - Unmapped Fields

    If fields do not match any of the field mapping rules, these rules will apply.

    operation - string

    The type of mapping to perform: move, copy, delete, add, set, or keep.

    Default: copy

    Allowed values: copymovedeletesetaddkeep

    source - string

    The name of the field to be mapped.

    target - string

    The name of the field to be mapped to.

    maxItems - integer

    Maximum number of documents to fetch. The default (-1) means no limit.

    Default: -1

    parserRetryCount - integer

    The maximum number of times the configured parser will try getting content before giving up

    <= 99

    exclusiveMinimum: false

    exclusiveMaximum: true

    Default: 0

    refreshAll - boolean

    Set to true to always recrawl all items found in the crawldb.

    Default: true

    refreshErrors - boolean

    Set to true to recrawl items that failed during the last crawl.

    Default: false

    refreshIDPrefixes - array[string]

    A prefix to recrawl all items whose IDs begin with this value.

    refreshIDRegexes - array[string]

    A regular expression to recrawl all items whose IDs match this pattern.

    refreshOlderThan - integer

    Number of seconds to recrawl items whose last fetched date is longer ago than this value.

    Default: -1

    refreshScript - string

    A JavaScript function ('shouldRefresh()') to customize the items recrawled.

    refreshStartLinks - boolean

    Set to true to recrawl items specified in the list of start links.

    Default: false

    retryEmit - boolean

    Set to true for emit batch failures to be retried on a document-by-document basis.

    Default: true

    rewriteLinkScript - string

    A Javascript function 'rewriteLink(link) { }' to modify links to documents before they are fetched.

    startLinks - array[string]

    Documents that point to Sharepoint Sites.

    trackEmbeddedIDs - boolean

    Track IDs produced by splitters to enable dedupe and deletion of embedded content?

    Default: true