That's not been the experience of others. You were trying to use regular expressions; this is not supported on the Path tab. Only "*" and "?" are recognized as special match characters.
Thanks, Karl On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:54 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Karl. > > For the record: To achieve my demand I had to create an "Allowed > documents" Transformation connection and insert that connection into a job > pipeline. > >> Hi Igor, >> >> The documentation for the JCIFS connector is pretty >> good: >> https://manifoldcf.apache.org/release/trunk/en_US/end-user-documentation.html#jcifsrepository >> [1] >> >> It describes how to construct matches for the Paths tab, using * and ? >> as wildcards. They are not regular expressions. >> >> Karl >> >> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> How can I write an expression to match only certain file types to >>> index? >>> For example, I just want to index .pdf .doc and .odt files >>> >>> Creating a crawl Job I'd tried to insert a rule "Include indexable >>> file(s) matching", in "Paths" filters, with this regular expression >>> /(?i:.(pdf|doc|odt))$ but everything was indexed, seems the >>> expression was not validated, the same with /.(pdf|doc|odt)$/i and >>> ".(pdf|doc|odt)$"i >>> What is the proper way to write filters? Some example? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Igor Kattar >>> >> >> >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] >> >> https://manifoldcf.apache.org/release/trunk/en_US/end-user-documentation.html#jcifsrepository >> >
