Supported Features

The ENOVIA ER connector can crawl both Business Objects and relationships, offering a full Search experience, with thumbnails and preview. It also handles multiple-query processing.

This section describes the following supported features:

This page discusses:

Incremental Indexing

The ENOVIA ER connector, supports two types of incremental indexing.

Important: Incremental indexing types are exclusive. If you choose to use one type, you cannot use the other.

Incremental Type Description
By modification date

The ENOVIA ER connector identifies new or modified documents using the modification date in ENOVIA. These documents are timestamp-based on modified fields.

Important: ENOVIA does not support time zones. Configure both the connector and ENOVIA with the same time zone to ensure that this comparison is valid.

For deleted documents, the connector supports URIs with ID fields only (unique in a single ENOVIA), and not physical IDs (unique for all ENOVIA).

Note: You can also use the internal ENOVIA "trace delete" feature to test incremental indexing before production.
By using an Event Monitor

The Event Monitor detects added/modified/deleted elements, and send their IDs for Exalead CloudView updates. The Event Monitor can delete objects indexed by URIs with both Id and physicalId fields.

To use an Event Monitor, specify its name in the connector configuration. For more information, see Adding an Event Monitor for Incremental Indexing.

This feature is compatible with ENOVIA versions from R2020x.

File Filtering

Under Configuration > Advanced > File container handler, you can use the Global file filter parameters:

  • Max. file size to avoid indexing large files that can impact the performance.
  • Trace reason to know why files have been included/excluded.

CAS Authentication

In 3DSpace connectivity mode, the ENOVIA ER connector supports CAS authentication for indexing only (the Search is not CAS-authentified).

All applications secured by CAS are accessible by the ENOVIA ER connector in HTTP REST mode.

Security Management

For non-standalone agent modes, the security level is the same as the:

  • 3DSpace security for 3DSpace connectivity mode.
  • Legacy ENOVIA SBA Connector for legacy modes (Local Context).

For more information, see Standalone ERAgent Security Recommendations.

Logging

The following information is available in the connector log:

  • PARTIAL and COMPLETE checkpoints used for incremental indexing
  • Number of indexed Business Objects
  • Name and size of each file linked to a Business Object
  • ID of each indexed Business Object
  • Any MQL or FCS errors

You can use the Advanced > Verbose option for debugging the connectivity but it logs everything.