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How can I index sub-community discussions and events?


I have written a custom crawler to index all the data from the connections seedlists

https:///forums/seedlist/myserver

When we started utilizing subcommunities, I double checked to make sure subcommunities behave practically the same as communities. They seem to, they have all the same properties in the Connections DB, just subs have a parent uuid. Got it.

I expected my crawler to find the sub communities discussions (basically just iterating through the atom feed with a Java XML parser) and pulling out the relevant information. Are subcommunities not published to this seedlist? If not, there does not seem to be a subcommunity specific seedlist.

We are currently on Connections 4.5

Thank you.


Solution

  • I have found the answer here.

    http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/appdevwiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.xsp?lookupName=IBM+Connections+4.5+API+Documentation#action=openDocument&res_title=Community_entry_content_ic45&content=pdcontent

    There seems to be an additional element that links to the sub-community feed from within the community. A crawler will need to send a GET request to that link.