Set Up Findability

Technical Overview

The Acrolinx Findability feature helps your writers ensure that their content is easy to find when people enter relevant keywords in a search engine. When Acrolinx Findability is enabled, writers see a Findability tab in the Acrolinx sidebar.

When writers work with Acrolinx Findability, they can define target keywords for each document. These keywords are saved to an H2 database at the following location:

<INSTALL_DIR>\db\findability

Acrolinx Findability is enabled by default so Acrolinx checks for findability every time you run a check. Acrolinx Findability isn’t a checking option so you can't disable it from the sidebar. However, you can update your core server properties to disable it.

Enabling and Disabling Findability

Open your overlay of the core server properties file.
You find the overlay for the core server properties file in the following location:
```
%ACROLINX_CONFIGURATION_ROOT%\server\bin\coreserver.properties
```
Add the following property:
```
keywordInformationService.connector=off
```
Save your changes and restart the core server.

Configuration Settings Reference

Settings in the core server properties :

%ACROLINX_CONFIGURATION_ROOT%\server\bin\coreserver.properties

Property

keywordInformationService.connector

Values

off

acrolinx (default)

Description

off = turn findability off.

acrolinx = turn on findability and use the Acrolinx Findability database to store target keywords.

Settings in the language configuration :

%ACROLINX_CONFIGURATION_ROOT%\data\<LANG_ID>\configuration.properties

These settings are ignored if the property keywordInformationService.connector in the coreserver.properties is off.

Property	findability.enabled
Values	`true` (default) `false`
Description	Turn findability on or off for a given language. This should only be set to `false` in exceptional cases. The recommended way to disable findability is in the core server properties.

Property

findability.discoveryRules

Values (file name relative to the language directory)

Description

Define the name of the .kwrul file that contains the keyword discovery rules. Acrolinx predefines this property when creating your guidance package.

If this property is empty, Acrolinx won't discover any keywords.

Property

findability.findKeywordVariants

Values

true (default)

false

Description

Define which words are considered occurrences of a keyword.

false = find case and hyphenation variants of keywords only.

For example, "Computer" as an occurrence of keyword "computer" and "self made" as occurrence of "self-made."

true = additionally find inflections of keywords.

For example, treat "computers" as an occurrence of the keyword "computer". Acrolinx uses a morphology to analyze and generate inflections.