Lotus Notes Searching
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Supports 8.5.2!
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, and a 'Did You Mean' spell checker provides greater accuracy.
NEW! Search DWA/iNotes
You can now search your active DWA Mail, and all of your Archives, directly from the DWA/iNotes Client. And what's more, the search environment is automatically set up for each user, meaning no Administrator intervention.
1. Enter your Search Query
| 2. Navigate Results
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This means that DWA/iNotes becomes the front end to ALL of your Mail & Historical Data, making it much easier to find information.
Searching Mail & Mail Archives
Even in R8.5, you cannot search your Mail & Mail Archives simultaneously. However you can with the FT Search Manager, and directly from the Mail File (including choosing which Folders and Views to search). The Search environment is set up automatically, meaning no Administrator intervention.
1. Right Click in Mail
| 2. Enter Your Query
| 3. Navigate Results
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This means that users no longer have to open individual Archives to get their data - they have everything they need in one place.
Translatable, Sortable and Selectable Results
All columns in the result set are now sortable, and you can easily run your own custom functions on results selected by the user. You can additionally translate all user functions into whatever language you prefer.
Key Features
- Web and Notes searching, server-based or locally.
- Automatic setup of databases in your environment.
- Requires no additional search indexes.
- Customisable UI and results, with search phrases shown in context.
- Translate all user functions into your preferred language.
- Use Widgets to search using the selected text in any Notes document.
- Search via Dialogbox or Frame from any application.
- Search active Mail and Mail Archives at the same time directly from the Mail File, including filtering to specific Folders & Views.
- Searching supports DWA/iNotes.
- Search Quickr Places, Blogs and Wikis at the same time as any other application.
- Selectable results, allowing you to perform custom functions on selected documents.
- Sortable Result Columns.
- Search Within Results.
- Search via Category (including within databases).
- Supports 'web-style' search syntax, functions and display.
- Automatic 'Did You Mean' spell checker.
- Provides Field-level searching.
- Export Results from any page.
- Provides summary information (Top 50 Queries etc).
- Conforms to Notes security.
- Users can choose to search only relevant databases, per search.
- Automatic background indexing of local databases.
- Replaces the standard Domain Search seamlessly to users.
- Create a location-aware Intranet Search for a Portal, an 'Application Suite' Search, or plug searching into any database.
- Search specific databases, i.e. 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.
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.
For local information, please feel free to contact our Resellers Lialis (Netherlands), GFI (Belgium), mySolutions (South Africa), Merkur Solutions (Canada), Acadia Solutions (USA, North East) and EBS (USA, South West).
"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.
"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).
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