Assessing and planning for data is a critical step in setting up a Magnify search application. The following are some general guidelines that can help your organization prepare for deploying a successful application.

Search versus Report.

• What do you want to search?
• How do you want the results to be presented?
• What details do you want to see?

Content Types.

• How is the information organized?
• What are the common attributes across your data?
• Are there relationships among the data?

Architecture.

• What information is searchable?
• What information will be used for reporting?
• How is information aggregated and filtered?

Transforming Data into Information.

Magnify can search on any structured or unstructured data that contains strings or numbers. Fields and file properties (state, type, and keywords) are configured as categories to further filter search results.

Security.

Magnify provides security features for the Lucene search engine. When choosing a security model for your application, several factors will determine how to setup security when retrieving search results, such as integrating with existing security infrastructure, who is authorized to access the search application and what information each type of user will be able to access.