To create a new search collection, go to the Configuration tab and
click the Add icon (
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next to the Search Collections item to create a new collection.
Type a Collection Name and a Description, then click OK.
To create a database seed to crawl, go to the Configuration tab and click Add new seeds and select Database. Click Add new seeds. More information on this seed can be found in the Database documentation.
Before starting the crawl, add the Database Converter function in order to convert the crawled XML before it is indexed. This converter is found in the Converting tab under Configuration. Click Add a new converter, select it from the list of converters on the dialog that displays, and click Add to add it to the processing of your collection. This converting function enables you to specify which columns should be used as the title, abstract, URL, etc. in addition to other actions.
Once the seed and converter have been created, crawl the database. On the Overview tab, click Start a new crawl.
A new tab, Staging status, will appear during the crawl to show how many pages have been crawled and any enqueued URLs. The Indexing item shows how many <document> and <content> nodes have been indexed, with an estimate of how much longer the process will take. If the indexing completes successfully, the collection is ready to be searched and the staging data will become live, replacing the Staging status tab with Live status.
To proceed with this tutorial and learn how to test your search collection once a crawl has completed, click Testing Database Seeds.