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Chapter 16, Using Search 409
Indexing Your Documents
This is what users see when they use the text search interface. Make your
collection’s label as descriptive and relevant as possible. You can use any
characters except single or double quotation marks, up to a maximum of
128 characters.
10.
In the optional Description field, type a description for your collection up to
a maximum of 1024 characters.
This is displayed in the collection contents page.
11.
Select the type of files the collection is to contain: ASCII, HTML, news,
email, PDF, or multiple document formats.
The kind of file format you choose indicates which default attributes are
used in the collection and which, if any, automatic HTML conversion of the
content is done as part of indexing.For information about the attributes for
each format, see Table 16.2 and “About Collection Attributes” on page 404.
If you choose HTML as the file type and also try to index non-HTML files,
the server creates the collection with the HTML set of default attributes and
does not attempt to convert any non-HTML file it indexes. If you index
HTML files into an ASCII collection, even the HTML markup tags are
indexed as part of the file’s contents and when you display the files, the
contents are displayed as raw text. Regardless of the file type chosen, the
content of the file is always indexed.
12.
Select whether or not to extract META-tagged attributes from HTML files
during indexing.
If you extract these attributes, you can search on their values. You can
index on a maximum of 30 different user-defined META tags in a document.
You can only use this option for HTML collections.
13.
Select the collection’s language from the drop-down list.
The default is English, labeled “English (ISO-8859-1).” For more information
on character sets, see Chapter 13, “Managing Server Content.”
14.
Click OK to create a new collection.
Note
Once you begin indexing a collection, you cannot stop the process until either
the indexing is complete or you reboot the system. Shutting down your server
does not kill the process.