Century Electronics Sample Search Application

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Magnify provides the Century Electronics sample search application, which uses sample indices and a sample style sheet that can be used to preview some Magnify features. Century Electronics is a consumer electronics manufacturer that distributes products through retailers around the world. Its intranet search application enables executives and analysts to see how their business is performing through Key Performance Indicator reports to typical business reports such as detailed trends analysis.

To use the Century Electronics sample search application, type the following URL in the address bar:

http://server_name:port_number/wf_context_root/search?
clearcache=1&proxyreload=1&collections=collections_century.xml

where:

server_name:port_number

Is the server name of where Magnify is installed and the HTTP port of the application server. For Tomcat stand-alone configurations, the default port number is 8080. If you require SSL, use HTTPS instead of HTTP.

wf_context_root

Is the alias of the WebFOCUS Web application specified during the installation. The default is ibi_apps.

The Century Electronics data is available in the \ibi\WebFOCUS\utilities\demos\ibimagn.zip file and can be used to create your own sample indices using the iWay Transformer, Prototype Wizard, or the FORMAT MAGNIFY command.

The following image illustrates the Century Electronics search application and its various collections.


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Procedure: How to Configure the Century Electronics Search Demo

Complete the following steps to make the Century Electronics the default search application in Magnify.

  1. Stop the application server.
  2. Backup the current collections.xml file in the \ibi\WebFOCUSxx\config\magnify directory, where xx is the WebFOCUS version.
  3. Rename the century_collections.xml file in the \ibi\WebFOCUSxx\config\magnify directory to collections.xml.
  4. Restart the application server.
  5. Navigate to the WebFOCUS home page using the following URL:
    http://server_name:port_number/wf_context_root/
  6. Click Magnify Search Page.

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