If you’re an Autonomy iManage customer and you have access to the WorkSite Support portal, then there is some new content on there that will be of interest. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a direct link to it from the portal home and I’m not sure I should link from here direct to the resource due to it’s customer only nature, but have a word with your Autonomy contact for a link (also if Autonomy are reading this and don’t mind pointing out the location please feel free to add it into the comments).
The new content is a number of video webinars on the IDOL worksite indexer deployment that are worth a look if you’re on or about to go to version 8.5. There is about 60+ minutes worth of flash video taking you through such topics as:
- Indexer Deployment
- WorkSite Indexer Components & Key Settings
- Initial Crawl vs. Maintenance Crawl
- How Indexing and Searching Works with Active Content
- Plus a number of other related topics
I think it’s a great way to spread the knowledge of this new indexer and as IDOL becomes a key part of WorkSite it is a much better than the traditional training methods Interwoven (and other vendors) have previously implemented for new products.
I’ve not had time yet to watch all the videos but colleagues have and have said they’re excellent. Once I’ve had chance to watch them I’ll post what I think in the comments.
These webinars really are invaluable and go to a decent level of detail. Its also great to see they’re from the (ex-Interwoven) group who always were and still remain customer, rather than purely technology-focused.
In fact they are so good I would recommend people go through these videos rather than attending any of the IDOL courses, if only requiring IDOL knowledge for WorkSite.