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In the following sections we will go through all these components one by one and outline their functions.
Connectors
Connector Types
The ayfie Locator has a large number of connectors that support a wide variety of data sources. For Locator versions older than 2.11, the File Server, Exchange and SharePoint connector were preinstalled. As of version 2.11, all connectors have to be installed individually.
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The job of the Index Builder is to keep the search index in sync with the documents that are stored in the database. Hence, any added, deleted or altered document in the database will be detected by the Index Builder upon which it will do a re-index. The way the index Builder detects the changes is by monitoring two specific database tables (doc.document and the doc.document_tombstone) for any added, altered or deleted documents. If it finds any row with a time stamp newer than more recent than it's last visit, it will process that row.
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The SharePoint App Plug-In
The ayfie Locator Application for SharePoint is an add-on package to SharePoint that allows users of SharePoint to search with ayfie Locator from within the SharePoint GUI.
Data Enrichment Services (Rules Engine)
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