Sun Java System Portal Server 7.2 Administration Guide

Defining Schema Aliases

You might encounter discrepancies between the names used for fields in database schemas. When you import Resource Descriptions from one server to another, you cannot always guarantee that the two servers use identical names for items in their schemas. Similarly, when the robot converts HTML <meta> tags from a document into schema fields, the document controls the names.

The search server allows you to define schema aliases for your schema attributes, to map these external schema names into valid names for fields in your database.