Setting up interMedia Text searching

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interMedia Text delivers powerful text management and retrieval capabilities. It indexes any document or textual content to deliver fast, accurate retrieval of information. Several techniques are used to ensure fast and accurate text searching, from traditional full-text search to document theme analysis. For more information, see Oracle8i interMedia Text Reference.

  • If interMedia Text is not installed or enabled, a basic or advanced search tries to find the specified search words in the display name, description, and keywords of items (as well as the display name and description of folders, categories, and perspectives).

  • If interMedia Text is installed and enabled, a basic or advanced search also tries to find the specified search words in the content of uploaded documents and the first pages of URL items.

To take full advantage of interMedia Text in your content areas, you must enable interMedia Text searching and create an index.

interMedia Text functionality available only if you install and configure the interMedia Text component according to the instructions in the Oracle WebDB Installation Guide.

You must be the portal administrator to set up interMedia Text searching.

To set up interMedia text searching:

  1. In the Services portlet, click Search Settings.

    By default, the Services portlet is located on the Oracle Portal home page's Administer tab.

    Note: If you see the message, "interMedia Text is not installed", interMedia Text was not installed with the database and is not available for your content areas. Arrange with your database administrator to have interMedia Text installed.

  2. Select Enable interMedia Text Searching to make interMedia Text searching available in your content areas.

  3. Select Enable Themes And Gists to create a theme and gist for each item returned by the search.

    • A theme shows the nouns and verbs that occur most frequently within the item.

    • A gist displays a brief summary of the item, derived from how frequently those nouns and verbs appear.

    Note: Themes and gists are not available for all languages.

  4. In the Highlight Text Color list, choose the color to highlight the search words in the HTML renditions of the items returned by the search.

  5. In the Highlight Text Style list, choose the style to apply to the search words in the HTML renditions of the items returned by the search.

  6. Click OK.

  7. Now you have enabled interMedia Text, you need to create a new interMedia index.

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Setting up the search feature

Deleting an interMedia Text index

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