Index Reporting Data as a Data Source

Using a PAPI Publisher allows you to use reporting data as a CloudView data source. You are then able to index this reporting data and use the Mashup Builder widgets (charts, tables, etc.), to create your own graphical reports.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
About Reporters
Available Fields for the Reporting Publishers

Output Data to the PAPI Publisher

  1. In the Administration Console, go to Search > Reporting.
  2. Under Reporter, expand one of the reporters, for example, search-reporting.
  3. Click Add reporting publisher.
    1. Select PAPI Publisher.
    2. Click Accept.
  4. Click the newly added PAPI Publisher to display its configuration settings, and:
    1. For Connector name, select the Push API (unmanaged) connector.
    2. For Host, enter the connector hostname.
    3. For Port, enter the Push API port number <BASEPORT> + 2.
  5. Click Apply.

Index Data Collected by the PAPI Publisher

  1. Go to Data Model > Classes, and select Trace all metas to retrieve the reporting fields.
  2. Perform a query in your front-end application.
  3. In the Administration Console, go to the Home page, you see that the default connector is working as it processes the search data.
  4. To add the reporting fields as configurable properties in the Data model:
    1. Go back to Data Model > Classes.
    2. Optional: Click Add class to create a new class for your reporting properties.
    3. Click Add properties from traced metas and define how reporting fields must be indexed.
  5. Click Apply.

Once done, you can search for reporting data.