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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).

The FT Search Manager is a fast, multithreaded Notes & Web search engine that allows any user to search all of their favourite Notes databases at exactly the same time (i.e. in parallel, not sequentially) using standard Full Text search queries. The Search database can be used from either a Notes Client or Browser, installed on a server, and/or replicated locally. The databases being searched can be anywhere.

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.

1. Right Click in Mail (view full screen)

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2. Enter Your Query (view full screen)

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3. Navigate Results (view full screen)

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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.

1. Click Hotspot (view full screen)

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2. Navigate Results (view full screen)

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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.




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.

For program documentation, please see these documents;

FTSM Product Description.pdf FT Search Manager.ppt

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