Federation

Objective 3Sixty allows you to manage data throughout multiple repositories without having to move the content from one location to another. With Federated Search users can view, organise, report on, update and maintain all of their documents, files and records in one easy to use highly customisable space.

Federated Search Set Up Tutorial

Content Search

Content View Connectors are used by Content Views in Federation to query indexed documents and populate the results within a federated search view. Federation can then take action against the results such as preview, download, check in and out and edit the file's properties.

• Content Search Connection Configuration

Content Services

Content Service Connections are used to interact with content in Federated Search views. Actions set up in the Content Services API or the Discovery UI web application will be performed against specified repositories and documents through these Content Service connectors.

• Content Service Connections: An overview of Content Service Connections including steps to create a new one.

• Content Service Mapping: Content mappings will allow you to map custom parameters to properties in the destination system.

• Content Service REST endpoints: Content Service connections offer public REST Endpoints that allow for integration with external applications.

Content views

Content Views are how users can interact with indexed content in Discovery UI. They also allow for administrators to control who can access the view. Content views can be found under the Federation menu in 3Sixty Admin.

To make a new Content View, click the Create A New View button and fill out the following fields in the new content view form that pops up and click save.

• Short name: Enter a name for the view. Note: must be all lower case with no spaces or special characters

• Template: Select the type of view you want to create from the drop down

Once the new Content view has been created you can

Action		Description
	Edit	Allows you to edit the connection.
	Copy	Will create a copy of the connection.
	Delete	Will permanently delete the connection. If this connection is being used in any jobs or content views, it cannot be deleted.

Discovery

Discovery is 3Sixty's user interface for Federation services. It is a highly configurable platform which uses Views and Widgets to organise, view, and manage your data in the most effective ways possible.

• Basic User Guide: Navigating Discovery as a general user

• Discovery Configuration: From the user navigation menu under configuration, many of the configuration options can be set. This includes access, authentication, server url, and the file path for bulk downloads.

Widgets

• Widget Instance: These can be created and placed inside a 3Sixty View as a Widget. More than one instance can be created based on a single widget definition depending on the actions you want to perform.

• Content Views: A Content View Connection defines the who, what, and how of a search. A better term may be "Data Set" because the data you search and find is based on the configuration of the Content View Connection.

Tutorial

Setting up federated search: A step-by-step tutorial in which you will index content from your filesystem to Elasticsearch, then build a content view to search and filter the indexed content.