By modifying the thesaur.xml-file, Index Manager will return hits containing synonyms to the specified search words.
Say, for example, that you want to search for fast food, and want your search results to also find more specific kinds of fast food, such as pizza, hamburgers and french fries. Included with every installation of Index Manager is a file called Sample-THESAUR.XML, which can be modified to achieve this. To make your own synonym list, and enable them for search, follow these steps:
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How to: Use synonym lists to modify search results
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Searching for images with no metadata or no metadata in specific fields?
By entering xnoword search into the search box, you will get hits in images which do not have metadata. When searching for xnoword in a specific field, you will get hits for images where that field is empty.
Note: For indexed archives you also need to make sure that the fields that you want to search as empty are “indexed as empty” inside the “Fields” tab on index properties. For all changes a rebuild is required.
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How Index Manager indexes filenames
When Index Manager indexes filenames, they are interpreted using the codepage you have selected in the Regional Settings Control Panel in Windows. Characters A-Z are always read correctly, but if you plan to index files with e.g. Cyrillic or Greek characters in the filename, you will need to make sure that you have selected that character set as Windows’ default codepage.
This is done by opening the Region and Language configuration menu, where you will find an option called “Change system locale” under the Administrative tab:
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Set Index Manager to make searches accent insensitive
By default, Index Manager will index accented characters, such as äöü, different from un-accented characters. However, Index Manager is able to make searches accent insensitive. This setting is set on a per-archive basis. When enabling this option, Index Manager will ignore accents when indexing and treat them as regular unaccented characters. Thus it will be possible for a French user, for example, to search both for précipité and precipite and return all hits with or without the accents.
In order to enable the feature, open Index Manager’s Operations Center page, and edit the settings for the Index(es) you wish to make searches accent insensitive. Under the Advanced tab, you will find Language Options. Once you have made the changes, you must perform a complete rebuild of the Index(es) since it controls how Index Manager interprets the files’ metadata at the time when the index is built.
A note to Scandinavian users: The special Scandinavian characters æ, ä, ø, ö and å are treated as accented versions of a and o. Hence, when searching in archives with Scandinavian metadata, it makes sense to retain accent sensivity (by not selecting the checkbox in question).
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