Sun Microsystems Netscape Enterprise Server, Administrator'S Manual

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Performing a Search: The Basics
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• When searching on a collection other than Web Publishing that has the
option NS-collection-acl-check set to yes. (NS-collection-acl-check is set in
the
webpub.conf
file and applies to all collections. When it is set, ACLs
that are set on URIs matching the primary document directory defined for
the collections (in
dblist.ini
) will be honored by not allowing search to
be done on those collections.)
• Whenever a user searches on the Web Publishing collection.
Listing Matched Documents
In the default installation of the Netscape Enterprise Server, when you execute
a search from either the simple or advanced search query pages, you obtain a
list of the documents that match your search criteria. The list gives some
standard information about each file, depending on the collection’s format. For
example, the default results page for email collections give subject, to, from,
and date for each entry and news collections give subject, from, and date for
each entry.
The kind of file format in the collection indicates which default attributes are
available for searching. For information about the attributes for each format, see
“About Collection Attributes” on page 404.
For entries resulting from a search that checks for comparative proximity of
words to each other or for the exactness of the match, the file’s ranking can be
provided by showing a score.
If there are more matching documents than can fit on a page, click Next to see
the next batch. You can always execute a new search by entering new query
data and clicking Search.
Sorting the Results
By default, or if you don’t enter anything in the Sort By field on the advanced
HTML query page, all documents matching the search are output according to
their relevance ranking (for queries that consider this) or their position in the
server file database (for other queries).