Getting SES to index unknown document types in UCM?

Question

Hi
We have a SES set up to crawl/index a Oracle UCM, and when configuring the crawler source we can define which document types it should crawl/index. It makes sense that SES only knows how to index the content of some known document types, but why can SES not index any document type without looking inside the actual document? I mean, it is possible to upload any document type in UCM and give it UCM specific metadata like title and so on, and it should be easy for SES to index these UCM metadata for unknown document types also.
How can I get SES to crawl/index all unknown document types?
Thank you
Søren

Answer 1

I've checked with our UCM connector expert, and he says all document types are passed from UCM to SES.
So hopefully it should be just a matter of editing the crawler.dat file (found in $ORACLE_HOME/search/data/config)
You would need to add a MIMEINCLUDE line for the mimetype of the documents you want included - if you're not sure what the mimetype is for any document, you can usually see it in the crawler log file.
You'd also need to check that the document suffix is not in the list:
# default file name suffix exclusion list
RX_BOUNDARY (?i:(?:\.jar)|(?:\.bmp)|(?:\.war)|(?:\.ear)|(?:\.mpg)|(?:\.wmv)|(?:\.mpeg)|(?:\.scm)|(?:\.iso)|(?:\.dmp)|(?:\.dll)|(?:\.cab)|(?:\.so)|(?:\.avi)|(?:\.wav)|(?:\.mp3)|(?:\.wma)|(?:\.bin)|(?:\.exe)|(?:\.iso)|(?:\.tar)|(?:\.png))$You can edit this list to remove any suffixes that you do want included.