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Welcome to IDOL Expert

# Welcome to IDOL Expert

The Micro Focus IDOL data platform converts your source content to an index of useful data that you can search and analyze. IDOL Expert describes the capabilities of IDOL, and aims to get you started with using IDOL in your system.

To get started with using IDOL Expert, you can:

- look at the IDOL Workflow

- look at the Functionality View

- go to the navigation panel Browse tab and view the navigation that suits your current level of IDOL expertise.

## What's New in IDOL Expert

The following new topics have been added to this version of IDOL Expert:

- Query Weighting in AgentBoolean Queries
- IDOL Agentstore

The following topics have been updated in this version of IDOL Expert:

- Field Properties
- FieldText
- FieldText Operators
- Regenerate Data Indexes
- Audio Analysis
- Import Tasks
- Extract Speech
- Document Fields that control Processing

NOTE:

Several topics that related to IDOL Speech Server have been removed, to reflect the fact that IDOL Speech Server is not available in IDOL 12.0.0.

For information about IDOL Speech Server, refer to an earlier version of IDOL Expert.

## IDOL Workflow

Here are the main steps that you need to consider:

1. Look at Your Content: what data do you have, and how do you want to use it?

2. Retrieve Content with connectors to extract your data from your existing repositories.

3. Enrich Your Content to improve how IDOL interacts with your data.

4. Configure IDOL to manage your requirements.

5. Consider your Security requirements.

6. Index Your Content into IDOL Server.

7. When you have your complete data index, you can Use Your Content.

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