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Object searching process overview

The process of searching for object text begins with the submission of a CBR query and ends with the return of the search results. A CBR query includes a CONTAINS function call to perform a full-text search.

The following table shows the high-level steps involved in searching for an object:

  Step Description Related information
1 CBR query submission An application, such as the administration console, submits a CBR query to Content Platform Engine. A CBR query, by definition, includes a full-text search expression. For information about CBR queries, see CBR query syntax introduction.

For information about submitting a CBR query from the administration console, see Submitting a CBR query.

2 Full-text search submission Content Platform Engine submits the full-text search expression to a IBM® Content Search Services search server. For information about accessing the following properties in the administration console, see Accessing subsystem configuration properties:
Maximum worker threads for searching
For a full-text search request in a CBR query, the maximum number of concurrent worker threads that find index information.
3 Word stem functional inclusion The search server identifies the stems for the terms in the full-text search expression and functionally includes the stems in the expression. For more information about word stems, see Token searches: Language-aware versus exact-match.
4 Synonym functional inclusion The search server identifies any synonyms for the terms in the full-text search expression and functionally includes the synonyms in the expression. For more information about synonyms, see Synonyms.

For information about defining synonyms, see Setting synonyms for full-text searches.

5 Stop word exclusion The search server identifies any stop words in the full-text search expression and removes them from the expression. For more information about stop words, see Stop words.

For information about defining stop words, see Setting stop words for full-text searches.

6 Search result determination The search server reads the appropriate indexes to run the full-text search. The search results are passed back to the text search subsystem dispatcher.  
7 CBR query result determination Content Platform Engine joins the full-text search results with other tables in the CBR query and runs the query. For information about the relationship between the CBR query and the full-text search expression, see CBR Queries.


Last updated: March 2016
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