Adding to an Existing Collection


You want to add only Microsoft Word and Excel documents to an existing collection.

NOTE: The following command must be issued as a single line from the command-line. It is broken up here for readability.

vspider -collection icd.coll
-start f:\documents
-indmimeinclude application/msword
-indmimeinclude application/excel

Case-specific Options

Option
Reason
-indmimeinclude
This option specifies that only the specified MIME types are to be indexed.

In this case, an additional instance of -indmimeinclude is necessary to also index a second MIME type. You could also include all values in a single instance of -indmimeinclude.

Unnecessary Options for this Case

Option
Reason
-indmimeexlude
When you use inclusion criteria, it is implied that all other criteria are excluded.
All Networking Options, -cgiok, -norobo
These options only affect indexing web sites.





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