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Search results: Watson Discovery

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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.
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Discovery | Requirement to make a Field Non-Searchable + Returned as part of any Search Query

We are currently performing a Migration activity for Verizon (WEX to Discovery). In Watson Explorer, we have a concept of "weights" for fields. For example, a weight of (-1) makes a particular field Non-Searchable. Further, even if a field is "Non...
5 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Under review

Universal Watson Discovery

Universal Watson Discovery could be a powerful AI-driven knowledge and financial intelligence system, integrating IBM Watson Discovery's NLP, AI search, and document analysis with your broader Open Wealth Autonomous Nexus (OWAN), Nano Inheritance ...
7 months ago in Watson Discovery 2 Submitted

Watson Discovery v2 connectors for private/protected websites should support redirection support other Authenication mechanisms

Customer has a private / protected website that they want to crawl using a Discovery v2 IBM connector for web crawling. The private / protected website has redirection to login page and authentication is using Azure Multi Factor authentication. To...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Enable the encoding to handle text files in ShiftJIS code.

There're a lot of ShiftJIs text files stored on Windows File System which we're going to crawl, but currently there's no way to change the encoding setting in WD(on CP4D), so all of them are garbled ( by default they are read as UTF-8 text). Pleas...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

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 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Allow for Export of Ground Truth to CSV file or JSON

WKS is used to train models for deployment to WDS and solutions are built around WDS. Training these models is time consuming and slow. Often in building solutions that incorporate WDS, it would be useful to be able to have a set of "ideal" ground...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration