Combining documents

[Mohankumar Govindasamy]

Hi All,

I have a requirement to combine documents and provide it as a single result.

Example.

For a product xyz, I have a document from sales team and a document from package team.

If a user searches for xyz, I need to give the combined single result as response.

 

Note: Both the documents are available in index.

 

Is it possible in GSA?

 

Any clue how to address this requirement?

 

Thanks,

Mohan.

 

[Mathias Bierl]

You should combine the documents before feeding it into the index of the GSA.

Otherwise you have to filter this in frontend but this could be really complicated if it happens often

[Mohankumar Govindasamy]

Yes Mathias,we can use feeds to combine but unfortunately here documents are indexed thru web crawl.

[Dave Watts]

> Yes Mathias,we can use feeds to combine but unfortunately here documents are
> indexed thru web crawl.

They won't be if you want to merge them. You'll need to replace your
crawl with a feed.

Even there, though, you're going to have to figure out what end result
you want. For example, if the user runs a search and you have two
related documents, say a PDF and an HTML page, what do you want the
user to see? Ultimately, they're going to have to click on a link to
view a document. Are you going to have landing pages for these
composite documents?

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[Alessandro Lapadula]

Hi All,

You can try this workaround: create a zip archive containing the documents and index it. 

Notice that in terms of license a zip archive is counted as the number of contained files.

Regards,

Alessandro

[Edwin Stauthamer]

Hi,

So the GSA extracts the text from all files in the ZIP-file?

In the results, will the ZIP file be presented or the individual files contained in the ZIP, or both?

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[Dave Watts]

> So the GSA extracts the text from all files in the ZIP-file?

Yes.

http://www.google.com/support/enterprise/static/gsa/docs/admin/72/gsa_doc_set/file_formats/file_formats.html#1081660

> In the results, will the ZIP file be presented or the individual files
> contained in the ZIP, or both?

If I recall correctly, the cached copy will be the individual file,
but the link will go to the zip file.

[Mohankumar Govindasamy]

Thank you all for your valuable inputs.

 

Regards,

Mohan