Retrieving documents with content-based retrieval

Use IBM® Content Search Services to integrate content-based retrieval into the Content Platform Engine.

Content Search Services consists of index and search servers that are created and registered at the FileNet® P8 Platform domain level. The Content Platform Engine text search dispatcher passes index and search requests to Content Search Services servers. The text search dispatcher is configured in the text search subsystem. The servers in a domain are available to all of the object stores in the domain. For multiple sites in a domain, servers in a site can access only the object stores that belong to the same site. The individual servers in a domain can be enabled or disabled, impacting all of the objects stores that they service. Content Search Services can be disabled or enabled at the object store level as well.

Instances of the Document, Annotation, Folder, and CustomObject classes and subclasses can be indexed. For instances of a class to be indexed, you enable the class for content based retrieval (CBR-enabled). String-valued properties of these classes can be CBR-enabled as well.

Indexing is done automatically for all CBR-enabled objects and properties. Because the indexing operation is a batched, asynchronous operation, its results are not immediately evident.

Client applications submit full-text search requests, which are processed by the search servers.

For more information, see Finding objects with content-based retrieval in the FileNet P8 Platform documentation.