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Attributes Page

When your indexed documents contain meta data such as author and date information, you can allow query users to refine their searches based on this information. For example, you can allow users to search for all documents where the "author" attribute has a certain value. To define a search attribute, use the "Search Attributes" subtab. Oracle Ultra Search provides system-defined attributes such as "Author" and "Description". You can also define your own.

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After defining search attributes, you must map them to either HTML meta tags for web data sources or table columns for table data sources.

To map search attributes to HTML meta tags, use the "Meta Tag Mappings" subtab.

To map search attributes to table sources, refer to step 4 of creating a table source in the Sources Page. Additionally, you can view table source mappings in the "Table Column Mappings" subtab within the "Attributes" tab.

There are no user-managed mappings for the Email Source. There are two predefined mappings for emails. The "From" field of an email is intrinsically mapped to the Oracle Ultra Search "Author" attribute. Likewise, the "Subject" field of an email is mapped to the Oracle Ultra Search "Subject" attribute.

Search Attributes

Search attributes are attributes exposed to the query user. Oracle Ultra Search provides system-defined attributes such as "Author" and "Description". You can also define your own.

To define your own attribute, enter the name of the attribute in the text box and click on Add.

Note: Search attributes cannot be removed.

Meta Tag Mappings

Use this page to map search attributes to meta tags. Meta tags are descriptive tags found in the HTML document header. They are a general means of specifying key-value pairs that describe the HTML document.

Search attributes are attributes exposed to the search engine user. You define search attributes in the "User defined attributes" subtab under the main "Attributes" tab.

Mappings between meta tags and search attributes are many-to-one. Multiple meta tags can be mapped to a search attribute. However, a meta tag cannot be mapped to more than one search attribute.

To map a meta tag to a search attribute, follow these steps:

  1. Define a new meta tag (Make sure the meta tag is not already defined).
  2. Select a search attribute to map the meta tag to.
  3. Click on the 'Map' button.

Note: Once you define a search attribute mapping, you cannot remove that mapping.

Table Column Mappings

This page displays all mappings between table (or view) columns and search attributes, for all defined table sources.

You can create such mappings when you define a table data source with the "Table source" subtab of the Sources Page.  

Columns that are mapped to search attributes can be of type CHAR, VARCHAR, VARCHAR2, NUMBER and DATE.