CollectFieldStatistics

Set CollectFieldStatistics to True to collect statistics about the distribution and data content of document fields. For example, when you turn this feature on, Content collects statistics about:

  • the total number of individual occurrences of each field, and the number of distinct documents that each appears in.

  • how many distinct values are observed for each field.

  • occurrence counts for values that Content can parse as numeric, date, or geographic values.

  • the distribution (minimum, maximum, and mean) of numeric and date values, and value lengths, for each field.

Enable field statistics when you want to use structured information and metadata in your documents when you do document suggestion (see Suggest). You can also use the GetTagNames action to view field statistics, which might allow you to identify areas where you could improve your field configuration.

If you want to introduce field statistics to an existing IDOL Content Component index, you can set RegenerateFieldStatsIndex to generate the necessary files at startup, rather than reindexing all your content. Otherwise, IDOL Content Component generates field statistics information only for new documents.

Type: Boolean
Default: False
Required: No
Configuration Section: Server
Example: CollectFieldStatistics=True
See Also: RegenerateFieldStatsIndex