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Configuring Text Search
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In this example, the first line of periods (in the file by default) indicates that
words with 40 or more characters are not to be indexed as well as the words at,
and, and be. [0-9a-zA-Z] indicates that all one letter words are not to be
indexed. [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]+ indicates that all integers with 4 or more digits are
not to be indexed.
The words you specify are case sensitive so if you want to stop all the case
variations of a word you need to enter them all. For instance, for the you might
enter the, THE, and The.
Make sure you have the stop list you want before you create a collection. If you
need to change the stop list after a collection has been created, you need to
delete the collection, change the stop list for the collection type, recreate the
collection, and reindex all the documents in the collection.
Turning Search On or Off
You can turn search capabilities on and off for your server. Turning search off
for a server where users do not use this function can improve server
performance. You may also want to turn off the search function at certain times
when you know the server will have heavy traffic, reserving this function for
times when traffic is lighter.
If you turn search off, the search plug-in is not loaded when the HTTP server
starts up. The default is for search to be turned on.
Note
If search is turned off, the Find Broken Links function in Web Publisher is not
available because it executes a search as part of its operation.
To turn off the search function, use The Search State Page in the Enterprise
Server user interface.
Configuring the Search Parameters
As server administrator, you can set the default parameters that govern what
users see when they get search results.