Microsoft SharePoint 2013 and 2016

To create a new SharePoint 2013 or 2016 data source:

  1. From the main menu select Data Sources

  2. Click NewNew Data Source

  3. In the New Data Source dialog, select the dataset this new data source will belong to by:

    1. choosing an existing data set from the dropdown, or

    2. clicking Add to new Data Set and typing the name of your dataset

      If you use option 3b, remember to add the dataset to at least one security group. If you don’t, no users will be able to see the data from this data source.

  4. Click Next

  5. Select the data source and click Next

  6. Enter the credentials and details for the data source and click Next

Field

Description

User Name

A user with read permissions on the data you want to crawl.

Password

The password for the user.

HTTP Protocol

HTTP or HTTPS.

Server

The IP address or fully qualified domain name of the target server. Example: sharepoint.example.com

Site

Optional. You can use this field if you want to target a specific site on your SharePoint server.

Folder Path

Optional. Specify the path to target on the site. If you leave Site blank, we target every site on the server.

  1. Select the country for this data source and click Next

    The country is used in geographical visualisations

  2. Select the crawler

    In Exonar 4.3.0 there are two crawlers; you will only see the crawler that works with this data source

  3. Set the Crawl priority

  4. Specify whether you want to crawl once or continuously

  5. Click Start Crawl Immediately if you want to crawl the data right now

    Or you can start a crawl manually anytime you want

  6. Click Create Data Source

more See also: SharePoint URL lengths