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The Magnify platform has been updated with features to help guide users to the information they are looking for within the Magnify search application. For example, queries can be automatically expanded to match multiple variations of a word or suggest similar words to guarantee results. In addition, the interface can be configured for various languages and tuned for advanced content analysis. The interface has also been designed to detect differences between desktop and mobile access.
For more information on the features described in the following sections, see the Magnify Security and Administration Manual.
Magnify can be configured to support various languages using its international stylesheets and language analyzers. The stylesheets are available in the following languages:
The following image illustrates the Magnify interface in various languages.
Analyzers are used to process text strings so that the most relevant information is stored in the index and returned to the Magnify search application. An analyzer is a configured set of rules that break up text strings into tokens. For example, the Standard analyzer breaks apart a sentence at each space and makes all characters lowercase. Magnify supports all Lucene and Solr analyzers in all languages. You can also create custom analyzers to provide a more enhanced search experience. Analyzers are assigned to a collection in the collections.xml file as follows:
<group name="documentation" id="documentation">
<search lang="en" analyzer="StandardAnalyzer"
stylesheet="en/en_stylesheet" id="en_search_default_collection"/>
<component id="technical_documentation" member="technical_documentation"/>
</group>Magnify provides spellchecking functionality when other terms that are similar to those searched are found.
The following image displays a spelling suggestion for a search query that did not find any matches in the default collection.
To enable the spellchecking functionality in Magnify, you must create a spelling dictionary, which will contain the terms that will be used to make a spelling suggestion. For more information on enabling the Magnify Spellchecker, see the Magnify Security and Administration Manual.
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Magnify provides the Century Electronics sample search application, which uses sample indexes and a sample stylesheet 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:
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.
Is the alias of the WebFOCUS Web application specified during the installation. The default is ibi_apps.
The Century Electronics data is available in \ibi\WebFOCUS\utilities\demos\ibimagn.zip and can be used to create your own sample indexes using the iWay Transformer, Prototype Wizard, or the FORMAT MAGNIFY command.
The following image illustrates the Century Electronics search application and its various collections.
Complete the following steps to make the Century Electronics the default search application in Magnify.
http://server_name:port_number/wf_context_root/
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