Symbolic links
How do I create a website where I use portions of several different data stores? I have three different RCDATA01 datastores on my windows machine and want to use just a portion of each datastore.
The answer is easy. Use the windows mklink to create another datastore with only portions of the other datastores.
The implementation is a little less easy but not that difficult.
Step one: Create a new RCDATA01 directory somewhere on your machine.
C:\> Mkdir NewData
C:\> cd NewData
C:\NewData> Mkdir RCDATA01
C:\NewData> cd RCDATA01
Step two: Create links to some existing directories in the new datastore
C:\NewData\RCDATA01> mklink /J fpc00000 C:\Users\ResCarta\Desktop\ResCarta-Sample\RCDATA01\fpc00000
C:\NewData\RCDATA01> mklink /J wionrfi0 D:\RCDATA01\wionrfi0
or to use just one institution's data
C:\NewData\RCDATA01> mkdir wecv0000
C:\NewData\RCDATA01> cd wecv0000
C:\NewData\RCDATA01\wecv0000> mklink /J 20121211 C:\ResCarta-Sample\RCDATA01\wecv0000\20121211
C:\NewData\RCDATA01\wecv0000> mklink /J 20130108 C:\ResCarta-Sample\RCDATA01\wecv0000\20130108
Step three: Start your Collection manager and open C:\NewData\RCDATA01\
Create your collections and add what ever items you may like.
Save the Collection metadata and close the Collecion manager
Step four: Start your indexer and create an index in C:\NewData\RCDATA01\
Step five: Add a new ResCarta-Web application to your web server and point its data source to C:\NewData\RCDATA01\
Yes, Virginia, you can do this with Linux and OSX as well using symbolic links.