General Settings

The table below details the general settings for a project. The name, variable name, variable type, description, and default are defined for each setting.

Note: Your Watson™ Explorer Engine search application may or may not require the configuration of these parameters. If the description of the parameters listed here does not clearly identify its potential use in your search application, please contact IBM support for clarification.

Table 1. General Settings
Setting Name	Type	Description
Enable general debugging (debug)	boolean	When true, Watson Explorer Engine will print a debugging log in debug-dir. This debugging log is in XML format and can be browsed using the administration tool (see reporting.debug). Do not turn this option on by default as it affects the performance of the software and may quickly fill up the disk. Default: false
Do not output repository elements in the XML (lean-xml)	boolean	Reduce the size of the XML output by discarding elements which come from the repository. Should be safe in most case but makes the XML serialization of the Watson Explorer Engine object slightly incorrect. Default: true
Encrypt the Vivisimo output XML when writing to files (encrypt)	boolean	Encrypting XML output will ensure that no critical information (like username & password) is plain-text readable, in particular in temporary files. 3DES encryption is used. Default: false
Enable general profiling (profile)	boolean	When true, Watson Explorer Engine will perform light debugging allowing to use the debug log for profiling. Note that debug needs to be turned on for this option to work. Default: false
Application reporting database directory (reporting-dir)	string	The directory to use for the database files for application reporting information. Default: {install-dir}/data/reporting
The path of a file to which debugging information will be written (use "-" for stderr) (debug-file)	filename	A writeable file (with full path or path relative to the working directory) into which some debugging information will be printed (this is a "lightweight" alternative to the debug-dir option). If debug is not on, only the warning and error messages will be printed.
Enable efficient paging (efficient-paging)	boolean	Retrieves documents from sources in a more efficient manner, allowing a larger number of documents to be returned. This feature is incompatible with certain other Velocity features. Default: false
Number of documents to cluster when efficient paging is enabled (efficient-paging-n-top-docs-to-cluster)	number	When efficient paging is enabled, not all documents will be retrieved up front and thus are not available for clustering. This option controls how many of the top-ranked documents will be retrieved and used for clustering. Default: 200
Enable assertion on errors (assert-on-error)	boolean	Default: false
Maximum documents to process (max-docs)	number	Default: -1