Viewing the Results in Real Time

How to:

After you have mapped collections to index libraries and added drop-down options for each collection, you will need to refresh the Magnify session with the application server, such as Apache Tomcat.

This can be accomplished by restarting the application server or using the Refresh Collections option in the Magnify administration console.


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Procedure: How to View the Changes

To view the changes, return to the sample default URL.

  1. Navigate to the default Magnify search page using the following URL request:
    http://host:port/wfcontext_root/search

    where:

    host:port

    Is the machine name and port number where WebFOCUS is installed.

    wfcontext_root

    Is the WebFOCUS application root.

    Note: Sample or default URLs are for informational purposes only and may not resolve correctly, if at all.

    This is the full default URL:

    http://localhost:8080/ibi_apps/search
  2. With the Default Collection selected in the collection drop-down menu, enter the Boolean search for movies OR cars in the search field.
  3. Click the Search button.

    All 70 records are returned in the results, as shown in the following image.

  4. Select the Movies collection from the drop-down menu.
  5. Click the Search button.

    The 60 records for movies are returned in the results.

  6. Select the Cars collection from the drop-down menu.
  7. Click the Search button.

    The 10 records for cars are returned in the results, as shown in the following image.


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