What is a Collection?

Collections allow you to group indexes together into one logical unit to facilitate searches across several areas. Through collections, you can organize information into specific areas of interest. For example, an enterprise could create collections for each department in the organization, such as Human Resources, Sales, Marketing, Research and Development, and Corporate, by arranging various combinations on specialized indexes on topics, such as product names, orders, monthly sales, and so on.

After you define and set up collections, the Magnify search page may display them in a drop-down list (as defined in the style sheet), allowing a user to further focus their search. You can set up collections to be searched individually (for example, Sales) or across two or more collections (for example, Sales and Widgets).

The following image shows a drop-down list of collections available in the Century Electronics search page.

A collection can be any of the following:

There are two ways to define an index:


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