Setting Search Defaults

The Search defaults page allows you to specify certain settings about how Information Server handles searches. To change the search defaults page, do the following:

: 1. Click Server Setup on the menu bar.
: 2. Click Search Defaults on the Server Setup menu. Information Server displays the following page.

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The settings you can change on this page and their valid values are described below.

Results

The Results section allows you to specify how results are displayed on the results list. It contains the following selections.

Page Size

Specify the number of documents you want listed on each page of the results list. The default is 25.

Sorting

Select the way you wants documents sorted on the results lists. The following selections are available:

Score - Sorts descending by score
Title - Sorts ascending by title

Threshold

Select the minimum score for the documents to be displayed. The following selections are available:

0 - Displays all documents that match the query.
0.25 - Displays documents that match the query with a score of 0.25 or higher.
0.50 - Displays documents that match the query with a score of 0.50 or higher.
0.75 - Displays documents that match the query with a score of 0.75 or higher.

Document Viewing

Document Viewing allows you to specify whether you want users to navigate a document using highlighted words, and how highlighted words are displayed. Highlighted words represent those words in the document that met the search criteria.

Highlight Navigation

You can specify whether to enable or disable highlight navigation. The following selections are available:

OFF - Words that meet the search criteria are displayed as specified in the highlight tag fields. Navigation is not enabled.
ON (for JavaScript) - Words that meet the search criteria are displayed as specified in the highlight tag fields. Information server adds an <A NAME = > tag to each highlighted word. You can create your own Javascript program that allows you to use buttons to navigate from one highlighted word to the next. See the SEARCH'97 SEARCHScript Reference Guide for information on the available syntax and objects to enable this.
ALL (entirely HTML) - Words that meet the search criteria are displayed as specified in the highlight tag fields. Words that meet the search criteria are bracketed with links in the form of the symbols < and >, which allow you to navigate from one highlighted word to the next.

Highlight Tag

These fields specify how the highlight is to be represented. Enter both a valid beginning and ending HTML tag. The default is <STRONG>

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