How to Overwrite Document Properties (Title, Author) for Indexing Purposes

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SES Experts...
Our client is running SES 1.1.1.2.0.0 and using a Database Data Source to index various documents (PDFs, DOC, XLS, PPT, etc.). The document metadata is taken from column data (TITLE, AUTHORS, KEYWORDS, etc.) rather than the properties of the document.
The client does not want SES to index the properties of the document (Author, Title, Subject, Keywords, etc.).
Is there a way to accomplish this? I believe the Document Service API could accomplish this but it's not clear to me how exactly we would do this.
Any help/pseudo code would be appreciated.
Thanks!

Answer 1

You have to implement a document service and place it in the pipeline after the default summarizer.
You could also try to remove the default summarizer from your pipeline. Try it out before wasting time on a document service implementation. Depends on the way you retrieve your column data.
If however you really need to develop your own DS simply overwrite the title attribute with the value from the column data you mentioned or delete unwanted entries.
public int process(DocumentContainer documentContainer) throws DocumentServiceException {
DocumentMetadata docMeta = documentContainer.getMetadata();
docMeta.setAttributes("TITLE", new String[] { yourtitle }); // overwrite attribute
docMeta.deleteAttribute("AUTHOR"); // delete attribute
return DocumentService.STATUS_ATTRIBUTE_CHANGE;
Oliver