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Watson Discovery

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Allow updating metadata without updating the document in "Update Document" Discovery API request

At this time, we need upload the same document due to update only metadata. I want to update metadata of a document without updating the document because it takes a long time to process the document uploaded.
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Build Discovery support for automatic correction of mis-spellings instead of requiring Query expansion to explicitely train Discovery

We are an OEM partner of IBM and have built a Chatbot offering with Watson Discovery search integration. Feedback from one of our Customer's indicates that they are looking for built-in Watson Discovery support for correcting mis-spellings / offer...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Need the custom crawler sample with Python

Currently the custom crawler sample code is Java only. My customer is requesting the Python one for their ease of use and productivity.
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add permissions to allow a User to upgrade Discovery environment size

BMC Software has an agreement with IBM to host multiple Customers in BMC's Watson account. BMC invites a Customer's admin user(s) who have Admin permissions on the Resource group created for the Customer. A Customer can have a Watson Discovery ins...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Want to use the crawl date as a date in the Content Miner when using the web crawler.

The customer used oneWEX before, and has been migrating to WD Premium service since June 2021. However the customer are suffering from lack of functionality in WD. In oneWEX, when crawled data with using the web crawler, it was possible to set ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Capability to add filters with questions while adding training via tooling

There is API capability to add filters to training data but the SMEs who are not technical will need the same capability in tooling
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Approval flag based relevancy input

If we have to give the capability for the users to train the system then it will be better if the training API has an approval parameter which could be set to false to start with and then an SME could review those ratings to check if it could go i...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery : Box connector should be able to crawl with Service Accounts when "App Access Only" is selected

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-connector-box-cloud&locale=en While configuring a Box connector, many customers need to select "App Access Only" for security reason. With that, currently only App Users are select...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Search option by Queries and Documents in the Relevancy Training User Interface.

There should be a search option available on the WDS Relevancy training interface. The search at a minimum needs to be one NLQ, Documents (id, document name).
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced User Management

Companies with multiple and/or large teams expect the user management capabilities of the services they use to support their organization structure. Kay capabilities expected from an enterprise solution: Users assigned roles - directly or via ass...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release