Users often use both content and property based searches during the course of a business day. Searches can be extremely resource intensive. In this course, you learn how to configure Content Search Services, configure document classes for content based retrieval, create index partitions, and use bulk operations to update multiple files based on search criteria.

• IBM Content Manager concepts and terminology: Object stores, objects, properties, content
• Be able to navigate the Administration Console for Content Platform Engine.
• Recommended prerequisite courses:
  • IBM FileNet Content Manager 5.2.1 Introduction (F280G)
  • IBM FileNet Content Manager 5.2.1: Work with Object Metadata (F282G)

• What is content-based retrieval (CBR)?
• What is a content index?
• What are IBM Content Search Services?
• Starting and stopping IBM Content Search Services
• What is an index area?
• Use affinity groups to control server assignment
• Enable Content Based Retrieval
• Domain level tasks
• IBM Content Search Server console commands

• What is an index partition?
• Configuring Index partitions
• Settability values
• Selecting a string property for an index partition
• Use a date property for a partition

• Index areas and full-text indexes
• Index area states
• Automatic activation of index areas
• Enable Content Based Retrieval
• Object store level tasks
• Create an index area object
• Index jobs
• How to run a CBR search
• CBR SQL query format
• CBR enabled properties

• Combined CBR ad database searches
• How the mixed query works
• CBR Query Optimization
• Configuration
• Handling requests for ranked results
• Configure CBR query optimization options

• Perform Searches and Bulk Actions
• Activities that you need to complete
• Actions on Multiple Objects
• Types of Multiple-object Actions
• Actions and Operations
• Perform Bulk Actions