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Watson Discovery Service (WDS)

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Delete All Documents API

Right now if you want to delete all documents, you either need to delete the collection (which could mean code changes to point to a new ID), or you need to write a script to delete every document one by one which is time consuming.
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 2 Future consideration

Multiple SDU models per Collection

in my domain of business, clients put different kind and format of documents in the same collection. We need the possibility to have multiple SDU models in the same collection. Every SDU model get applied to a specific set of files identified by a...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 3 Future consideration

API to import SDU Model to a collection

Currently i can create configurations, create collection and add the config to the collection, update stop words , the only thing I cannot do is import the SDU model. This functionality is requested by few clients as they manage the initial creati...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 0 Future consideration

Allow an optional "Callback URL" in "Add Document" Discovery API request

We, frequently, write services to poll Discovery for a document's status after we POST a document for ingestion. If, within the request body, we could include a callback URL for Discovery to asynchronously POST a completion message to, we could cu...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 2 Future consideration

Support for authentication other than basic authentication on web crawlers

Watson Discovery's web crawlers implement Basic authentication support as website access authentication. Currently, there are few basic authentications for websites that are used commercially in the world, and most of them are "form authenticat...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 0 Not under consideration

Skipping processing of image files (JPG/GIF/PNG/image PDF)

Watson Discovery ingests a number of file types, including image types like JPG/GIF/PNG/image PDF. When OCR is switched off, Discovery still processes these files and captures its metadata. Our client wants to skip image files completely and also ...
5 months ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 0 Under review

Start and Stop WD for CP4D scripts to be added to the product

When managing Watson Discovery for Cloud Pak for Data, there are times when we need to restart the system. For example. hardware maintenance, planned outtage, disaster recovery, datacenter migration, etc. In such cases, currently, there is no offi...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 0 Future consideration

Project Level Security Needed

We are using Watson Discovery v2.1.2 in CP4D and we see that a user added under “Manage users” for a WD instance with role “Admin” or “User” is able to not only access all project created by other users, but is also able to delete them. Our securi...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 6 Future consideration

Configure level for search

Hello, I need to limit the web crawler search to the first level, but there isn't any way to configure the search level
3 months ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 1 Submitted

Detect duplicates

Hello, I have a Web Crawler and I need to exclude duplicates from search results
3 months ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 1 Submitted