The custom properties feature is an extension to custom filtering that enables Enterprise Vault to access and index additional Domino server properties, that have been added to messages by a third-party application, when archiving items.
Content categories are groups of settings to be applied to messages as they are archived. Settings can include a retention category to be applied, an archive to be used and particular message properties to be indexed. You can configure Enterprise Vault to apply a content category on all messages archived by particular archiving tasks. Alternatively, by using custom filtering together with custom properties, you can configure Enterprise Vault to apply a content category on selected messages only.
You define custom
properties and content categories in the XML file, Custom Properties.xml
, which must be located in
the folder Enterprise Vault\Custom Filter
Rules
. Additional entries in this file enable you to make
the indexed properties available to other applications, for
example, the Enterprise Vault browser search. Users can then
include the custom properties in archive search criteria. An
example of the custom properties file,Example Custom Properties.xml
, is installed in
the Custom Filter Rules
folder.
An API is available to enable third-party applications to access the custom properties.
If you have special filtering requirements for your archiving system, Symantec Corporation can supply the appropriate custom filters.
To configure custom properties or content categories
Ensure that the custom filtering registry settings for the required archiving tasks are configured. These need to be set, even if you want to implement custom properties or content categories, without filtering.
See Configuring registry settings for Domino server journal filtering.
Create the XML file,
Custom Properties.xml
. Place this
file in the folder Enterprise Vault\Custom
Filter Rules
.
To configure Enterprise
Vault to index specific custom properties on all messages, without
performing any filtering, create a Custom
Properties.xml
file but no ruleset file. The Custom Properties.xml
file must include
definitions of the custom properties and a default content
category. The default content category will be applied to all
messages and defines which properties Enterprise Vault is to index.
This behavior can be altered using the IGNORENODEFAULT registry
setting.
If you want to index the
properties on selected messages or apply content categories to
selected messages, create the required filter rules and actions in
XML ruleset files. These are held in one or more XML ruleset files,
which must also be placed in the folder, Enterprise Vault\Custom Filter Rules
.
Restart the archiving tasks that have custom properties and filters enabled.
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