Using The Button
This document describes the major steps to use Indagine. The steps include:
- Fill the form in the admin page.
- Crawl and Index the Website.
- Insert the search button in a Web page.
- Indagine in action.
1. The admin page
We need to open the isearchadmin.html page from a web browser and fill the form
with the following information:
- Collection Name - A Collection is a set of web pages in a given website. You
can think of a collection as the name of the website.
- Root URL - The main page of your collection (website).
- Restrict - This list contains the servers you want to fetch from.
- Proxy - The name of your proxy server.
- Display layout - The default display for the result list is: Title, summary,
URL, Score, Size, and Last modified data from a given web page. The simple
layout contains the Title, URL and score.
- Hits per page - The number of hits per page to be displayed.
An example of the page with all the information.
2. Crawl and Index
Click the button to start the process. First it will crawl the given collection,
then it will insert all the data in the database, and finally it will create the
text index. This process takes time and depends on the size of your website.
Don't close the browser until the process is complete.
An example of the page with the current information
and status about the process.
3. Insert the search button
Once the process is complete, you need to cut and paste the piece of HTML code
into your main web page. This piece of HTML enables your web page to use Indagine
to search the collection.
An example of the page with the search button (the
piece of HTML) at the bottom of a given home page. In the example we ready
to search the website.
4. Indagine in action
We can type keywords in the main box and search the website. An
example of searching the keyword domain.
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