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Comment: Updated wrt Datafari 3.2.1

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In order to create an alert, you need to be connected with a connected search user role.

We expose a web interface. First, go to the administration menu, click on My Account and select Create Alerts in the dropdown list.

Image RemovedIn the search results page, click on the Parameters link on the upper right of the screen.

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Once in the paramets page, click on the Alerts link on the left.

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You can then see the management page for alerts. On the left, you see a table listing the existing alerts. You can either Modify the Send frequency or simply Delete an alert directly from the table.

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If you want to create a new alert, click on the Create alert button.

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You then have access to the UI that allows you to create Alerts by filling the fields, and choosing a frequency.

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  • Keyword is the word that will be used by the Solr request,
  • Subject is the subject of the email,
  • Mail is the recipient's email address,
  • Core is the Solr core in which the request will be made,
  • Frequency is the frequency for triggering your search query and sending the corresponding emails.

 

If you want to know which alerts you have already created, use the search bar on top of the page, and type in what you want to search for (it searches in the queries keywords). If you want to see all your searches, leave the search bar empty and click on the search icon.

The identified results are then displayed in the results table. You can edit an existing alert by clicking on the keyword, or delete one by clicking on the red button.Image Added


Note that the alert results are related to the currently connected user. Only the search admin role and the search expert role can see all the existing alerts for all the users.Image Removed


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titleAlerts on plain text (eg .txt) files

(warning) If you are using the local filesystem connector (which is NOT recommended in production environment for security reasons), the alerts cannot be used on plain text files, as Tika cannot extract any metadata like the modification date from them.

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