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How it works

The Discourse connector indexes documents from your Discourse Topics.

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Setting up

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Authorization

1

Log in to Discourse

Log into your Discourse account
This Discourse user must have admin privileges
2

Open API keys

Click the Admin menu from the home page. Open the Advanced sub-menu and select API keys.Discourse admin navigation to the API keys page
3

Create API key

Click New API Key, name it “Onyx”. Select “All Users” for User Level and “Read-only” for Scope.Create and fill out API key
4

Save and copy key

Click Save. Copy the key and put it into Onyx.Create and copy API key
5

Set API key username

For the API Key Username, enter the username of the Discourse account which has access to the information you’d like to index.

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Indexing

1

Name the connector

Input a name for a connector (if you plan on creating multiple Discourse connectors, this will be used by you to tell between them)
2

Provide base URL

Provide your Discourse’s base url.Fill out Onyx connector
3

Enter Topics to index

Enter the Topics you wish to index. If left blank, all topics available will be indexed.
4

Start indexing

Click connector to begin indexing the indicated topics.