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You can add additional data sources from Advanced Settings → Hawksearch -> → DataSources submenu (your-site-domain/Sitefinity/Administration/Settings/Advanced). You should provide the Data Source with Name, Api Key, Url, Severity and Timeout interval.
Name - provide unique name for the data source.
Api Key - provide a unique Api Key: the key has no restrictions. Can contain letters, characters and numbers.
Url - the Hawksearch connector will use this Url to send a POST request to the data source
Severity - the values for severity are “Low” and “Critical”. Based on this severity the indexing workflow will have different result.
Timeout interval - you can set a timeout interval for each data source.
Workflow
When reindexing is triggered from Sitefinity, the connector will notify an external indexing service by sending the Hawksearch index name and the Api Key.
There are different workflows based on Data Source severity:
Low Severity - if Low Severity external data source fails its indexing, the indexing procedure will continue as usual.
Critical Severity
Deferred Index activation is active - while deferred index activation is active the connector will create the new index while preserving the old one so there is no downtime as the indexes are swapped. If Critical Severity data source fails its indexing or the Timeout interval is exceeded the newly created index will be removed and the system will continue using the old one.If the timeout interval is exceed the workflow for failed data source will be executed.
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Workflow
When reindexing is triggered by Sitefinity, the connector will notify an external indexing service by sending the Hawksearch index name and the Api key.
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