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Watson Discovery

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allow calling original file from WD when integrating with WA

Customer wanted to call original file(e.g. pdf) from WD from WA, as they want end-user directly review full content of original file(e.g, pdf) including images by click URL in WA.
2 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

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.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Implementation of field filter function in Watson Discovery

Our customers are using oneWEX's contnet mining and have migrated their miner collection to WD Premium since June of this year. They used the field filter, which was a function of oneWEX, to divide the text in the field. However, WD does not provi...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery query need support for Field relevany boosting / Field relevancy weighing

BMC Customer's are requesting that Watson Discovery query should allow specifyingfield relevancy boosting / field relevancy weighing when searching documents - typically for gettingmatching passages. In the absence of this Feature, BMC Customer's ...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Create an out-of-the-box connector to Microsoft Dynamics

MS Dynamics is an important and prominent data source that clients are looking to crawl with Watson Discovery
8 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Watson Discovery should parse the tables in PDF documents such that text in each cell is parsed with integrity and not get truncated when there's a line break

Clients expect PDF table parsing to work without errors that truncate text
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 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 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under 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 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Delete expired pages during web crawl

When Watson Discovery Cloud recrawls a website(s) it is only able to update or bring in new content to the collections. It does not have the ability to delete any expired/removed pages from the index. Instead, either a custom solution is needed to...
12 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Provide a Watson Discovery API that can do search across multiple Projects and score results

Provide a Watson Discovery API that can do search across multiple Projects and score results. We can support querying across Projects by querying individual Projects in parallel and aggregating the results. However aggregating results from indepen...
7 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration