# Workplace search vs Elasticsearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Search\ **Tags:** elastic-workplace-search\ **Created:** [July 28, 2020, 7:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/workplace-search-vs-elasticsearch/242848 "2020-07-28T07:29:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adityaPsl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@adityaPsl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adityaPsl)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 7:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/workplace-search-vs-elasticsearch/242848/1 "2020-07-28T07:29:53Z")
Hello Team, I was going through the documentation, as per my understanding workplace search is elasticsearch under the hood, so just couple of queries 1. can we use workplace search connectors to crawl data to elasticsearch for e.g. sharepoint online 2. can we create a logstash pipeline to ingest data in to workplacesearch 3. for share point connector how can we transform the data while ingesting into elasticsearch or workplace search. Thank you for your help and support Thank you, Aditya ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/workplace-search-vs-elasticsearch/242848/2 "2020-07-28T07:36:28Z")
Workplace Search is a solution, a set of packaged apps (including core Elasticsearch) that take away the difficulty in building things yourself. So going on your points; 1. No, these are built into Workplace Search directly, they are not available separately 2. Yes, using [this](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/workplace-search/current/workplace-search-custom-sources-api.html) 3. What sort of things are you looking to do? Also, I have moved this to the Workplace Search category, as you will get a better response from the engineers that help build it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![adityaPsl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@adityaPsl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adityaPsl)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/workplace-search-vs-elasticsearch/242848/3 "2020-07-28T09:00:42Z")
> [@warkolm](#): > > 1. What sort of things are you looking to do? Thank you very much warkolm, may be synonyms, tagging, numeric field processing , etc. one more query 1. is there a size limit on file processing for workplace search ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Story](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sean_story/32/69987_2.png) [@Sean\_Story](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sean_Story)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/workplace-search-vs-elasticsearch/242848/4 "2020-07-28T15:20:22Z")
You can do all the custom transformations you'd like over your data if you use a [Custom API Source](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/workplace-search/current/workplace-search-custom-sources-api.html) as @warkolm suggested above. But with the out-of-the-box sharepoint connector, no, you can not hook in custom field processing or tagging. There is currently a 20MB limit on files that are eligible for text extraction. If any files exceed that size, their metadata will be indexed, but not their textual content. ---
**Author:** ![adityaPsl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@adityaPsl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adityaPsl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/workplace-search-vs-elasticsearch/242848/5 "2020-07-29T06:45:12Z")
Thank you very much Sean\_Story, only one query , is there any sharepoint online connector or plugin available or recommended for elasticsearch Thank you, Aditya ---
**Author:** ![MadsOhm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/madsohm/32/69154_2.png) [@MadsOhm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MadsOhm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/workplace-search-vs-elasticsearch/242848/6 "2020-07-29T07:01:15Z")
We do indeed have a [SharePoint Online connector](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/workplace-search/current/workplace-search-sharepoint-online-connector.html) available. I have linked the documentation. 👍 ---
**Author:** ![adityaPsl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@adityaPsl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adityaPsl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/workplace-search-vs-elasticsearch/242848/7 "2020-07-29T07:13:32Z")
Thank you very much MadsOhm for your reply, but this is for workplace search right, i am looking for plain elasticsearch cluster. not sure if we can use the same for elaticseach ---
**Author:** ![MadsOhm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/madsohm/32/69154_2.png) [@MadsOhm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MadsOhm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/workplace-search-vs-elasticsearch/242848/8 "2020-07-29T07:53:03Z")
Oh, sorry. Yes, this is for Workplace Search. I don't believe we support any connectors for use directly into Elasticsearch for SharePoint Online. For that you'll have you create your own. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/workplace-search-vs-elasticsearch/242848/9 "2020-08-26T07:53:04Z")
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