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194 Chapter 9 Managing Verity Collections with the mkvdk Utility
Bulk Submit Options
mkvdk provides a variety of bulk submit options, described below. An overview to
using the feature is described earlier under “Using Bulk Insert and Delete.” For
complete information about using bulk submit to insert, update, and delete
documents, see Chapter 3.
Using bulk insert and delete
The bulk submit feature supports the insertion of documents and related field values
into collections.
To use the bulk submit feature to populate fields, complete the following steps:
1 Define the fields in the
style.sfl and/or style.ufl file, as appropriate.
For more information about the
style.sfl/style.ufl files, refer to Chapter 7,
“Indexing XML Documents” on page 137.
2 Create a bulk submit file specifying the documents to insert and the field values
for each document.
3Run mkvdk using the -bulk option and specifying the bulk submit file or files.
Option Description
-bulk This option tells mkvdk to interpret filespec as a bulk submit file. The option
can be used with -insert, -update, and -delete.
-offset num This option specifies the offset into a bulk submit file or files. Note that if you
specify multiple bulk submit files and use the -offset option, the offset is
applied to all of the bulk submit files.
-numdocs num This option specifies the number of documents to insert or delete from the
bulk insert file or files. Note that if you specify multiple bulk insert or delete
files and use the -numdocs option, the -numdocs setting is applied to all of
the bulk insert or delete files.
-autodel This option deletes the bulk submit file or files when the bulk submission
work is finished.