Sun Microsystems Netscape Enterprise Server, Administrator'S Manual

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Chapter 16, Using Search 423
Performing a Search: The Basics
If you enter an attribute name in the Sort By field, the documents are displayed
in an ascending sort sequence. You can list the documents in a descending sort
sequence by adding a minus sign (-) prefix to the attribute, as in -keywords or -
title. You can do a multiple sort, by typing in more than one field, as in
Author,-PubDate.
In a short query, sort order usually isn’t critical, but in queries that result in a
great many matches, you may want to set a sort value in order to obtain useful
search results. Note, however, using a special sort sequence may impact the
search’s performance.
Note
Attribute values in META-tagged fields are text strings, which means that dates
and numbers are sorted as text, not as dates or numbers. To convert the value
into a date or number, you can create a new property in the Add Custom
Property page from the Web Publishing tab and check the box that marks this
property as a META-tagged attribute.
Displaying a Highlighted Document
In the default installation of Netscape Enterprise Server, when you obtain a list
of the documents that match your search criteria, you can select a single
document to view in your web browser. Depending on how the pattern files
are set up, the word you entered as your original search query can be
highlighted in the displayed document with color, boldface text, or blinking.
To view a highlighted document, you click on the document’s entry in the
search results. The field you use to access the highlighted document depends
on how your search interface has been designed, but in the default installation,
you click the icon shown next to the document’s listing. When you click it,
there is additional code defined behind the icon’s link to format the displayed
document with the search query highlighted.
In the default search results page, if you click the file’s URL you open the file in
your browser without any special highlighting.
In the case of documents that have been converted into HTML, the URL points
you to the original document. To get to the converted HTML document, click
the document’s title.