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FT Search Manager 3.4 Ready for R8.0.2!
Easy Domain and Personalised Notes/Web searching | |
Learn more about the FT Search Manager in the fantastic Developers handbook Domino 7 Application Development!
"FT Search Manager is really the "killer app" we have been searching for....I found nothing that can compare with FT Search Manager's flexibility, ease of use, stability, and quality of results." - Brent Nye, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA (read more)
"It's a great product at a great price and something everyone in the Notes/Domino community should be using." - Tom Markovich, Chicago Lotus Notes User Group (GRANITE).
Results show the Search phrases in the context of the document (like Web Search results), making it easy to locate the documents you want.
NEW! Searching Mail & Mail Archives
The FT Search Manager now allows users to search their Mail AND Mail Archives simultaneously, directly from their Mail File - and they can even choose which Folders and Views to search.
All you need to do is add an Action we supply into your Mail Views and Folders, and your users can simultaneously search their Mail and Mail Archives directly from their Mail File. This means that users no longer have to open individual Archives to search for information - they can find everything they need in one place, resulting in a more effective business. In addition, your IT Department is providing a useful Knowledge Management function.
Search via Dialogbox
You can search from any database simply by adding an agent we provide (which you can also call via hotspot, action etc). Searching can then be built directly into the context of your application. Note that you can also search by replacing your standard Domain Search.
What else is new?
- Searching Mail by Folders or Views. Users can select multiple Folders or Views from their mail file, and search only those. Or, they can search everything.
- You can search directly from any Notes database, via a dialogbox we supply.
- You can replace the standard Domain Search with the FT Search Manager, seamlessly to users.
- You can search via browser using the URL, i.e. http://server/db.nsf/searchform?open&replicaid=88257161004B7A92&query=test (more parameters are also available).
- Users can export result sets from any page.
- Result sets display your search queries in the context of the document, making it easier to find your data.
- The same search database works the same way for Browsers, even locally.
- If local Full Text Indexes are required, they are built in the background.
- You can easily modify the result sets and result display. You can also create a location-aware Intranet Search for a Portal, an 'Application Suite' Search, or plug searching into any database.
- Web-like queries, e.g. a query could be Notes style ('dog AND cat AND NOT mouse') or Web style ('dog +cat -mouse').
- Web-like searching in the Notes Client. Just press Enter to begin a search and get Web-like search results.
- You can search Mail Journals.
The FT Search Manager differs from Lotus Domain Search and Search Site in the following ways; - Each user only searches databases that they actually want to search (which are stored in their preferences), including local databases. These can be changed at any time or saved, without affecting other users.
- Searching is performed in parallel, i.e. all databases are searched at the same time, not sequentially. In tests, parallel searching processed 2000 results from 20 databases 66% faster than sequential searching.
- Searching can be performed by Field (this is not possible in Domain Search).
- Each user can securely search their Mail File/s (local and/or server-based, including encrypted archives), at the same time as searching other databases.
- Search results can be customised per database, including summary information.
- Users can export Search results from any page.
- Users can perform searches locally or on a server, against local and/or server-based databases.
- Users can search within results and use other advanced features.
- No additional indexing is required (it uses existing Full Text Indexes).
- Users can change the databases to search, per search, without any other steps.
- Users are not reliant on how a database is categorised.
- Perhaps you want to find something, and you know it's in one of 6 databases or your mail, but can't remember exactly where. You don't need to search the entire Domain, just those few databases. With the FT Search Manager, you can search only those - and all at the same time.
The FT Search Manager differs from Google Desktop in the following ways; - You can search server-based data at the same time as local, archived data. This is important when you want to get all information on say a Customer contract, but you don't know where it might be (your server-based mail, server-based document filing, local email archives etc).
- You can search encrypted content, i.e. local mail archives, using the correct decryption key - your Notes ID.
- You can build the search function into your Notes Intranet/Portal Homepage, or any other Notes database.
- You can search any database with a Full Text Index, i.e. your local Mail Archives and server based filing databases.
- You can customise the search results returned per database, i.e. "Subject", "PostedDate" and "From" might be used for Mail, but another database might have fields called "LatestNewsTitle", "DocumentCreated", "Reference" and "CurrentOwner", so you would want to display those instead.
- You can modify it, e.g. change the UI or result format to your corporate standards, as you also get the source code.
- Your Notes users stay in Notes, and your Browser users stay in their Browser - they're not switching between different programs.
You get the benefits of Domain Searching (even better, because each user only searches what they personally want to search, including local databases and their Mail), while retaining the full set of Full Text search features (Field Level searching, AND, OR, NOT, *, +, -, etc), provided using a Query Builder.
The user can access search results in real time, while other results arrive in the background & automatically display via the results page. If they don't find what they're looking for, they can modify the search or add more databases. If they find too much, then can refine their search across all databases, or just specific databases.
Searching can be performed locally or server-based, across any local or server-based databases, and requires no additional search indexes to be built. The only requirement is our search database installed on an R6+ Server or Client. You can also modify the search database to match your corporate look-and-feel, or search from another database.
Feature List
Search from Notes Mail Files.
Users can search their active Mail and Mail Archives at the same time directly from their Mail File, including filtering to specific Folders & Views.
Web and Notes enabled.
The same database works the same way for both Notes and Web Clients, even locally.
Fully set up in 10 minutes.
Using our Automatic Setup, you can auto-discover the databases in your environment and set search defaults.
Requires no additional search indexes to be built.
Because we re-use existing Full Text Indexes, you don't need to build additional ones. This saves your server resources.
Automatic indexing of local databases.
When users add local databases to their search (i.e. Mail Archives), they can automatically build search indexes in the background and keep those indexes up to date.
Searching uses the complete Full Text set of features.
Use syntax you're familiar with, e.g. By Field, AND, OR, NOT, *, +, - operators etc. Users can also easily build complex search queries using the Query Builder, and User Preferences are retained for quick searching.
Searching supports 'web-style' syntax.
If you prefer using the same syntax you use with popular Web Search engines, you can. There is no mandatory 'AND', you can use +, - operators etc.
Just press Enter to begin a search - in the Notes Client.
You don't need to use a mouse to click a button, or Tab to a button then hit Space.
Display results via a 'web-style' display.
Show Notes results in HTML, with Column Headers, Database Graphics, customisable Font Colours, Sizes, Faces, Alternate Row Colours etc, and with the search words highlighted in the results.
Export Results.
Users can export results to csv format from any result page.
Conforms to standard Notes security.
All Searches and Results conform to Notes security, e.g. you can't search databases or see any results from those databases unless you can access them anyway. Also your local databases can be encrypted, and still available for searching.
Save Searches.
Searches can only be seen by the user conducting the search and the Administrator/s, unless specified otherwise (for instance you can save a search on specific databases for use by a team).
Search only what's relevant.
Users don't need to search the entire domain - they can search only their favourite databases, which are remembered from their last search.
Search Anything.
Each user can securely search their Mail databases (local and/or server-based), at the same time as searching other databases, on any server.
Search Anywhere.
Searching can be performed locally or server-based, against local and/or server-based databases. You can call the search from any database.
Search Within Results.
Users can easily 'Search Within Results' in a single database, or across all the databases in their original search.
Limit Results.
Administrators can use @Formula language to specify what NOT to return, per database.
Customise.
You can modify the look and feel of the search database to fit your corporate environment, and easily configure the results returned per database (including summary information).
Additionally, we can work with you to customise the product to your specific search requirements.
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