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Watson Discovery

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Creating Expansions while operation in progress returns 500 instead of 409

Follow up from #1474 which was closed without a resolution. Currently, if the user initiates a request to POST /v1/environments/${environment_id}/collections/${collection_id}/expansions while a process (such as a snapshot, etc) is running on their...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Make "name" optional for updateConfiguration and updateCollection

The Discovery updateConfiguration and updateCollection operations currently require name to be specified in the update request. If the user doesn’t want to change the name — just some other attribute — they still have to pass the "name" (and make ...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Discovery “getTokenizationDictionaryStatus” returns a non-standard error response for a 404 error

The “getTokenizationDictionaryStatus” operation (GET on /v1/environments/{environment_id}/collections/{collection_id}/word_lists/tokenization_dictionary) returns a "TokenDictStatusResponse" rather than a standard error response for 404 (not found)...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Effective Rename Entity and Relations for Annotations

At the moment, when we rename the name/label of the Entity and Relation under "ASSET" column, it doesn't change existing annotations, which are still associated with the previous labels. This is problematic when we need the label to be change...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Auto warning for unusual data trend

Auto warning or notification when system found unusual data compare to data history in certain period. It can be by color, text notification, etc. The purpose is just to notify user that there is unusual data or trend compare to certain period bac...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Extract all properties from Word documents

WDS extract only few properties from a Word document, but some users more properties : example with Manager or Company or Category who are not extracted and indexed.All custom properties used as tags by users are also not extracted and not indexed...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Option to fetch Sub Types while exporting the WKS ML model to use in Content Analytics

We have a requirement to use WKS ML model in Content Analytics. I have created subtypes in the WKS model for better understanding of the data. But I am not able to fetch those subtypes while exporting as there is only option to use mentions and re...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

question generation for uploaded content

The WDS primarily is focussed on answering a query based on documents ingested. In the education paradigm something additional important is being able to create questions (short-answer, fill-in-the-blanks, true or false or long answer) which that ...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

More Feedback within the Crawler Sync Settings section of website

More feedback info on the crawler process is needed within the Sync Section of the WDS tooling site. It would be great to know the under of documents / web pages that had been ingested in each run of the crawler. Currently only the complete number...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Method / Option within Sync Setting to initiate a complete reload of the documents that have already been crawled.

Currently even if you make changes to the schedule or the SDU collection, which is the normal trigger to re-read a set of documents or Web site that has already been crawled. Documents that have not been altered / edited will not be include within...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration