If not already in the Add/Edit a Lithium Source panel, go to the panel:

• To add a source, in the main menu, under Content, select Sources > Add Source button > Lithium.

  OR

• To edit a source, in the main menu, under Content, select Sources > source row > Edit in the Action bar.

In the Configuration tab, enter appropriate values for available parameters:

• Source name

  A descriptive name for your source under 255 characters (not already in use for another source in this organization).

  Corporate-Lithium-Community

• Community URL

  The web address of the Lithium server for the community that you want to index. If you want to make more than one address searchable, click the plus sign, and then enter the addresses to index on additional lines.

  • http://company.lithium.com

  • https://community.company.com/

  • You can also specify to crawl only a subset of a Lithium community by simply copying and pasting the address of a Lithium category, board, or thread. The URL is in the form:

    http://community.company.com/[...]/lithiumobjectlabel/objectid

    where the possible values for lithiumobjectlabel are given in the Label column in the following table.

    Label	Lithium object
    ct-p	Category
    tkbc-p	Knowledge base category
    bd-p	Forum
    tkb-p	Knowledge base
    con-p	Contest
    idb-p	Idea board
    qa-p	Q&A board
    bg-p	Blog
    gp-p	Group
    m-p	Forum thread
    td-p	Forum thread
    ta-p	Knowledge base article
    cns-p	Contest submission
    idi-p	Idea
    qaq-p	Q&A Question
    ba-p	Blog article
    gpm-p	Group article

  • If you use a reverse proxy, your REST API might not reside at your community root URL. You must therefore add the RestApiUrl hidden parameter to specify the URL address at which your REST API resides (see Lithium Source JSON Modification). Be aware, however, that Lithium does not recommend using a reverse proxy (see Reverse proxy and Lithium communitieswhile logged in with a Lithium account).

• Content security

  Select by who the Lithium community content is searchable (see Source Permission Types):

  • Private - Only you, the source creator

    OR

  • Shared - Everyone

In the Authentication section, when the Lithium community to index is private, you must fill out the following parameters.

• Username

  The username of a native Lithium account, such as an administrator account, that has access to the Lithium community content that you want to index. Moreover, this user must have permission to make REST API read calls event on a public community. When you have the administrator rights, this setting is available in your Lithium Community Admin section, under Users tab > Permissions navigation bar section > Defaults tab > Make REST API calls with read access.

  If the source credentials do not have the required permissions, you will get the LITHIUM_AUTHORIZATION_ERROR error.

• Password

  The corresponding password.

In the Content to Include section, consider turning off one or more of the following settings when you want to prevent specific Lithium content from being included in the index:

• Attachments

  Includes message attachments, such as images, videos, and PDF files.

• Users

  Includes data regarding users of a community.

  • You can include users only when indexing an entire community. If you only index a community subset such as a category or a board, users are not included (see Note: Crawling a community subset).

  • Including users of a large Lithium community can have a significant impact on the indexing performance.

1. In the Access Level column, select View or Edit for each available group.
2. On the left-hand side of the tab, if available, click Groups or API Keys to switch lists.

Optionally, consider editing or adding mappings (see Manage Source Mappings).

Complete your source addition or edition:

• Click Add Source/Save when you want to save your source configuration changes without starting a build/rebuild, such as when you know you want to do other changes soon.

  In the Sources page, you need to click Start initial build or Start initial rebuild in the source Status column to respectively add the source content and make your changes effective.

  OR

• Click Add and Build Source/Save and Rebuild Source when you are done editing the source and want to make changes effective.

  Back in the Coveo Cloud administration console Sources page, you can review the progress of your Lithium source addition or modification (see Manage Sources).

Once the source is built or rebuilt, you can review its content in the content browser (see Inspect Items With the Content Browser).