Changing objects

As an administrator, you can control changes to objects by creating document lifecycle policies and by implementing actions based on object events.

Creating document lifecycles
You can set up document lifecycles, or states that the document goes through during its life. Lifecycles consist of lifecycle policies and lifecycle actions.
Subscribing to events
Content Cortex optionally runs user-defined code in response to system or custom events. This user-defined code is called an event action handler, which you register with Content Cortex as an event action. By using a subscription, you associate an event action with one or more events and objects.
Change preprocessors
In addition to synchronous and asynchronous event actions, you can create a user-implemented action called a change preprocessor. A change preprocessor runs synchronously during a transaction before database updates have occurred. Using this feature you can make source object modifications that are difficult or impossible to achieve with synchronous or asynchronous event actions.
Text indexing preprocessors
A text indexing preprocessor is a custom user implementation that replaces or augments the text extract of document content before indexing. Preprocessors run instead of the normal text extraction process.
Enhanced extraction
The enhanced extraction framework extracts text and metadata from complex document types such as PDF forms, images, and structured data. This extensible framework allows different handlers to be plugged in that use different extraction engines, from IBM or other third-parties, extracting text from different document types. An initial set of handlers are provided in the Content Cortex 26.0.0, and additional handlers are added in future releases.
Managing code modules
You can implement the code for an action handler in a code module as opposed to a Java™ class file in the Java virtual machine (JVM) class path.
Handling bulk processing with sweeps
A sweep is an instance of a background service that you configure to process objects in a database table.
Handling bulk processing with queries
You can apply bulk actions to the search results of a query. The application of these actions occurs either while the query runs or after the query runs. For actions that are applied after a query runs, you select the search results to which the actions apply.