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Magnify allows you to ask one question across the whole enterprise. By clicking the Search button, Magnify accesses relevant data, such as reports and unstructured content, across various platforms and applications.
http://host:port/wfcontext_root/search?proxyreload=1&clearcache=1 &collections=collections_century.xml
where:
Is the machine name and port number where WebFOCUS is installed.
Is the WebFOCUS application root.
Note: Sample or default URLs are for informational purposes only and may not resolve correctly, if at all.
The default link to the Century Electronics Demo is:
http://localhost:8080/ibi_apps/search?proxyreload=1&clearcache=1 &collections=collections_century.xml
The search page displays, as shown in the following image.
The Collection List points to one or more Magnify index libraries where enterprise information has been organized and made searchable.
The search results display, as shown in the following image.
The results have the following elements:
The Breadcrumb trail shows the path from Camera to Sales Records.
Note: Initially, only 282 items matching the Sales Record category were returned. However, by selecting this category, the number increased. This occurred because the record limit only returns 300 records, by default. Although there may be additional records that match in the index library, they are not shown due to this record limit. By selecting the category, the new result set returned those additional records.
Note: Although only 300 records are returned due to the record limit, there are actually 2,224 records that match the search criteria associated with the Sales Record category under Source System.
The Region field is added to the Rollup chart, as shown in the following image.
Notice that multiple purchases have been aggregated into a single searchable order, as shown in the following image.
Magnify features custom query syntax which allows you to focus searches on specific results:
To search for results where the term CE Platform is found together, use the following query:
"CE Platform"
To search for results similar to CenturyTablet with spellings, such as CenturyTablt or CenturyTable, use the following query:
CenturyTablet~
An additional, optional parameter can specify the required similarity. The accepted values are between 0 and 1, with values closer to 1 signifying higher similarity. For example:
CenturyTablet~0.7
For example, searching for "red apple"~3 returns only results where red and apple are found within three words of each other.
To search for results where the term Tablet is found within five words of the term money, use the following query:
"Tablet money"~5
To search for results that must contain plasma and may contain TV, use the following query:
TV +plasma
To search for results that contain stores but not United States, use the following query:
stores -"United States"
To search for results that contain ñ, use either the n or ñ character, as shown in the following query:
Cataluña or Cataluna
To search for results that contain "music teachers" or both "MP3" and "VHS", but not "New York", use the query:
("music teachers" OR (MP3 AND VHS)) NOT "New York"
Note: You can use parentheses () to group specific clauses.
To perform a single-character wildcard search, use a question mark. To perform a multiple-character wildcard search, use an asterisk. The single-character wildcard search looks for terms that match with the single character replaced. Multiple-character wildcard searches looks for zero or more characters:
D?D or D*D
Note:
The Magnify search application gives users access to any and all enterprise information by searching it all at once and including tools to understand that information. The process for delivering enterprise information for search is handled by Magnify. Magnify transforms raw data into search content by identifying relationships in the data, categorizing metadata, and making all fields, tables, and data sources searchable. At the same time, Magnify associates each result with Business Intelligence reports tailored by context. In the following section, you will see how this is done with Format Magnify.
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