GSA feed - adding multiple documents to a single record - google-search-appliance

I am working on a product catalog whose search is powered by GSA. Each product is a single entry, but may have many associated documents. As I see there is only one content node allowed in the feed XML. is there a way to add multiple files to same record in the feed xml? Any suggestions?

Your best bet is going be when submitting each record to the feed, is to extract the content of associated documents and add as additional meta-data before sending to the feed.
Alternately, you can submit each record and each document, with some meta-data that references the record it's associated with. When returning search results, you could customize the front-end results to display related content (records or other attached documents).

You can try additional document content into new metadata(1500 char limit) or document body.

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Updating fields of a Couchbase document if it exists by Go

I am using gocb library. I want to update specific field of a document.
However if the document does not exist, I don't want to do anything I will just produce an error message.
You can say that first retrieve the full document itself and make update and then insert it.It is possible right. But I want to use a ready for use method for this purpose if there is any. Since I don't want to retrieve the document. I just want to update some fields of it.
Is there a way for this in gocb library?
If you want to update parts of the document, you can look at sub-document operations. It only transmits the accessed sections of the document over the network making it more efficient for small changes.
Example: https://couchbase.live/examples/basic-go-subdoc-mutate
If you want to rewrite the entire document, you are looking for Replace() which replaces an existing document with a new one. It is similar to Upsert() except that it can only replace existing documents & not create new ones.
General Reference:https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/guides/updating-data.html

Map multiple values to a unique column in Elasticsearch

I want to work with Elasticsearch to process some Whatsapp chats. So I am initially planning the data load.
The problem is that the data exported from Whatsapp, doesn't contain a real unique id per user but it only contains the name of the user taken from the contact directory of the device where the chat is exported (ie. a user can change the number or have two numbers in the same group).
Because of that, I need to create a custom explicit mapping table between the user names and a self-generated unique id, that gets populated in an additional column.
Then, my question is: "How can I implement such kind of explicit mapping in Elasticsearch to generate an additional unique column?". Alternatively, a valid answer could be a totally different approach to the problem.
PS. As I write, I think the solution could be in the ingestion process, like in a python script, but I still want to post the question to understand if this is something that Elasticsearch can do by itself.
yes, do it during the index process
if you had the data that maps the name and the id stored in a separate index you could do this with an enrich processor when you index the data to add whichever value you want to the document via a pipeline
also - Elasticsearch doesn't have columns, only fields

Where can I find sold item notes in the Square API?

I'm trying to create a report to pull my Square POS transaction data into Excel through Power Query. Basically, I want the information available in the standard "Items Detail CSV" report found in the Square Dashboard, but connected to Excel so I can build custom reporting and update it any time with a refresh.
I can connect to the Square data in Excel no problem. What I'm having trouble with is finding the right data, specifically the notes the merchant can enter in during the time of sale about the item. We have several items that will come up as "Custom Amount" where we enter additional notes about the item, and I can't find the notes field through the API.
After looking through the documentation, I've tried two main queries:
The Transactions List from v2:
https://connect.squareup.com/v2/locations/{location_id}/transactions
The Payments List from v1:
https://connect.squareup.com/v1/{location_id}/payments
The Payments List includes the v1PaymentItemization data type, which should include the notes field defined as "Notes entered by the merchant about the item at the time of payment, if any." I assume that's what I'm looking for.
(Link to documentation: https://docs.connect.squareup.com/api/connect/v1#type-v1paymentitemization)
However, I cannot find the notes field anywhere in my pulled results. There are no error messages, and I see every data field listed in the v1PaymentItemization documentation except "notes" in my query results.
Edit: The notes we're using are on individual items, not the payment as a whole. This fits the description of V1 List Payments -> PaymentItemization -> notes. I did check the tender notes as mentioned in the comments, but this was not what I'm looking for. Until now, I wasn't aware we could make a comment on the transaction as a whole, as opposed to individual items. The individual items notes would be more helpful anyway.
Either way, I didn't find the tender notes in the pulled data either. Most of the fields are there in the data pull, but not notes, v1TenderEntryMethod, and a couple of others. There's actually more data available in the standard dashboard reports than is actually pulling from the API.
I do realize a workaround is to export the Item Detail CSV report from the Square Dashboard, and then manipulate the data in Excel from there. I could even have a connection to the folder or file where I save my exports. It's just not as smooth as the desired result of opening Excel, setting my parameters there, and clicking refresh to get the data and formatted report all in one place.
Thanks
Second Edit: In the POS, I'm entering an amount which shows up as Custom Amount in the itemized list for the sale. I then click on the Custom Amount to add a note to it and specify what the item is (e.g., "Lamp"). That note is applied to a single item, and there may be several items per transaction that have these notes added to them which would otherwise only show as "Custom Amount" on a report or receipt. We do this because we sell several items that are not standard inventory items, but we do want to keep track of what we've sold.
I can see these notes for each item in the standard reporting, so I know the data is entered and saved correctly. However, I can't find the note field when I pull from the API. I see all of the other itemization fields (i.e., name, quantity, item_detail, itemization_type, etc.), but not the note field.
I'm getting these results with a simple /v1/payments pull with no parameters or filters.

Include Order information in MailChimp Campaign?

We already have our customer's Order Information in MailChimp. It shows on the "E-Commerce" tab of each Contact in the List.
Is it possible to send out a campaign in MailChimp that includes this information?
For example, the customer's most recent Order Number?
Unfortunately, they don't yet have pre-built tool capable of pulling customer/order attributes into a Campaign's content, and at least currently adding any data like this you'd like to dynamically populate in Campaign would require adding any data directly to the list fields and using their merge tags.
http://kb.mailchimp.com/merge-tags/getting-started-with-merge-tags
They do offer Product centric dynamic content options, if that'd be in any way helpful.
Use Product Recommendation Content Blocks: http://kb.mailchimp.com/campaigns/content-blocks/use-product-recommendation-content-blocks?utm_source=mc-kb&utm_medium=kb-site&utm_campaign=eepurl
Merge tags for products: http://kb.mailchimp.com/merge-tags/all-the-merge-tags-cheat-sheet#Merge-Tags-for-Product-Recommendations
You can optionally store merge fields associated with each list recipient:
http://developer.mailchimp.com/documentation/mailchimp/reference/lists/merge-fields/
You could create a custom merge field for "MOSTRECENTORDER" for each customer, and then reference it within templates using |MOSTRECENTORDER|

XPages: can i filter a view to show only entries that belong to a group?

i have a view in an xpage with some entries (lets say clients). I have an acl group of persons (clients) that contains some of the clients of the view. Now i want to use the search attribute of the view to show only entries that belong to the group.
I already use search attribute to select users by name e.g:
FIELD Name Contains "Chuck Norris"
Is there any similar query? (maybe using #isMember on the field....?)
UPDATE: i will have the group entries (client names) into a text list in a document too. so can i filter the "name" field of the view based on the values of a text list?
Perhaps using a reader field is a good idea. You're talking about restricting document access to a group of Domino users - that's exactly what reader fields are for.
For example, make your text list field containing client names into a reader field like this:
var item = document1.getFirstItem("myfield");
item.setReaders(true);
document1.save();
myfield needs to contain canonical names (CN=firstname lastname/O=organisation).
Using reader fields, you don't need to do any view filtering at all, it happens automatically. If you have really many documents (say, half a million or so), it could slow down things, otherwise, it's a nice approach.
When you want to restrict displaying documents only in one certain view reader fields are no solution, though. In that case, you need to do the view filtering yourself as you tried.
If you want to filter only for ONE certain client, then using a categorized view is the way to go. You can give the view panel the name of one client as category filter then.
If you want to filter for multiple clients, you need to do it based on fulltext search, just as you already tried. In that case, make sure you're working with Domino 9. Previous Domino versions don't apply the view sorting order to a fulltext search result, which means you have to search it manually using custom javascript or so, which is complicated.
Or, as Frantisek suggested, write a scheduled agent which puts documents in folders depending on their clients - but depending on the number of clients you want to filter the view for this may lead to many folders, which may lead to other problems. Furthermore, you need to make sure to remove folders when they are not needed anymore, and you have a lag until new documents appear in a folder.
So in a nutshell, if you want to do an application wide restriction based on client names, use reader fields.
If you want to restrict for one client name at a time, use categories.
Otherwise, use fulltext search with Domino 9.

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