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## **Creating MongoDB Collection**

A MongoDB collection can be created using the following steps:

  • After logging in to the Admin Console, select the Collections tab and click on Create a New Collection or "+" icon.

  • Choose MongoDB Collection as Collection Type

  • Enter a unique name for your collection (for example, MongoDB).

  • Choose Private/Public Collection Access and Collection Encryption as per the requirements.

  • Click Save to create the collection.

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  • Once the MongoDB collection is created you will be taken to the MongoDB tab

## **MongoDB Collection Settings**

  • MongoDB settings values must be set explicitly for MongoDB collections.

  • The mandatory settings for MongoDB collection are

    • Host Name

    • Port Number

    • MongoDB Type

    • MongDB Database Name

    • MongoDB Database Collection

  • SearchBlox also comes pre-configured with few parameters when a new MongoDB collection is created which can be modified as required.

  • The following table has the list of settings available in MongoDB collection

FieldDescription
**Host Name**IP address or name of the MongoDB host (default value is localhost).
**Port Number**Port number of MongoDB.
**MongoDB Type**Default value is local.
**User Name**User name in MongoDB (leave the username and password fields empty if no username is available).
**Password**Password used in MongoDB.
**MongoDB Database Name**Database name to be indexed.
**MongoDB Database Collection**Collection to be indexed.
**Fetch Size**Specifies the maximum number of records that can be fetched from the database at a time. The default is 100.
**Relevance - Stemming**Stemming considers the inflected words of the root form within the search page. For example, "running", "runs", and "ran" are all inflected forms of run. The default is YES.
**Relevance - Spelling Suggestions**Provide spelling suggestions for the collection. The default is YES.
**Keyword-in-Context Display**The keyword-in-context returns search results with the description displayed from content areas where the search term occurs.
**Enable Detailed Log Settings**When debug mode is enabled, indexing activity gets logged in detail within the index.log. Log details include : Indexing status of each URL along with timestamp, URL indexing status along with timestamp, status code and time taken for indexing. By default this is set to NO.
**Enable Content API**Provides the ability to crawl the document content with special characters included.
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## **Schedule and Index**

Sets the frequency and the start date/time for indexing a collection. Schedule Frequency supported in SearchBlox is as follows:

  • Once

  • Hourly

  • Daily

  • Every 48 Hours

  • Every 96 Hours

  • Weekly

  • Monthly

The following operations can be performed in a MongoDB collection:

ActivityDescription
**Schedule**For each collection, indexing can be scheduled based on the above options.
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## **Data Fields Tab**

Using Data Fields tab we can create custom fields for search and we can see the Default Data Fields with non-encrypted collection. SearchBlox supports 4 types of Data Fields as listed below:

Keyword Number Date Text

  • Once the Data fields are configured, collection must be cleared and re-indexed to take effect.

To know more about Data Fields please refer to [Data Fields Tab](🔗)

Best Practices

  • Please cross-check the steps to set up MongoDB in our documentation with your MongoDB admin for successful indexing of collection

  • Specify the correct and relevant settings of MongoDB in the MongoDB collection settings

  • If you have multiple collections, always schedule the activity to prevent more than 2-3 collections indexing at the same time.