Common Use Cases

In addition to the built in metadata that you can filter on in Vectara, there are several common use cases that can be handled via metadata:

Date filtering (before/after)

Often, documents will have dates associated with them: the creation date, last modified, date, or ingest date that can prove useful to filter by. To use these in Vectara, first convert the dates to epoch seconds and then use an integer

Indexing checkpoints

A frequent use case is