Introduction

Here we will try to explain what CAS-PGE is and when a user should consider using it.

Questions

List of questions I (cgoodale) have about the PGE module and how to use it.

Do I need to have workflow installed and running to use PGE?
What does PGE provide that workflow does not?
I think I just drop the cas-pge.jar into the workflow /lib dir....but what other config is needed? (xml files maybe)
How does workflow know that we are using pge?
Do i need to restart the workflow manager once pge is installed and config'd?

This section will capture some of the more advanced capabilities and use cases of PGE.

Q. How do I add multiple crawler actions to the PGE?

A. The tasks.xml file in the Workflow configuration contains a property called 'PCS_ActionsIds'. To add 1 action, then set the property like so,

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<property name="PCS_ActionsIds" value="MyCrawlerActionId"/>

Where MyCrawlerActionId is the crawler action ID name that you'd like to run in the PGE.
NOTE: make sure you also have a reference to PCS_ActionRepoFile within your tasks.xml PGE entry, which points to your crawler's config file. The crawler must support the action ID you specified.

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<property name="PCS_ActionRepoFile" value="file:[YOUR_OODT_HOME]/crawler/policy/crawler-config.xml" envReplace="true"/>

To add multiple crawler actions, do the following:

Add a property in the tasks.xml file, where the name can be whatever you want it to be and set your desired crawler actions there. We'll use ActionsIds as the property name,

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<property name="ActionsIds" value="MyCrawlerActionId1,MyCrawlerActionId2"/>

Note that the specified crawler action IDs must be comma-separated with no spaces in-between.
- In the PGE configuration file, add a PCS_ActionsIds key under the customMetadata tag and reference the property name that you had just set in the tasks.xml file (ActionsIds in this case),

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<customMetadata> ... <metadata key="PCS_ActionsIds" val="[ActionsIds]"/> ...