Can I search different departments using Commercial Webinator?

jeuteneier · Post by **jeuteneier** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 2:35 pm

Is it possible to set up the Commercial version of Webinator to search different departments. I have looked at the Asylumlaw site's (http://www.asylumlaw.org/cgi-bin/texis. ... r/metanew4 ) advanced search. Is that commercial Webinator or the full Texis?

Thank you,
Justin Euteneier

Post by **mark** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 2:56 pm

Webinator can do that. It looks like they have Webinator on multiple hosts and are using the meta search example ( http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/demos/meta/ ) to search the selected ones.

If all of your departments are in the same database you can select department by url prefix in a single search. See other posts on this board about how that's done.
http://thunderstone.master.com/texis/ma ... scope&s=MB

jeuteneier · Post by **jeuteneier** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 3:01 pm

Our departments are in different databases. But they are all linked from the Intranet's document root. I assume that Webinator spiders to create one index file which the search is based on. Or does a seperate license of Webinator need to be installed on each department that would be searched?

Justin Euteneier

Post by **mark** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 3:55 pm

Multiple machines require multiple licenses. Multiple databases on a single machine requires one license.

With separate databases you could meta search your own machine.

If you walk them all into one Webinator database you could use the limited scope search based on url prefix.

jeuteneier · Post by **jeuteneier** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 7:14 pm

Can you explain the "limited scope search based on url prefix?" We would be using this option rather than putting a different license on each database and meta searching.

Thanks
Justin

Post by **mark** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 10:08 pm

You would index all of your departments into one database using gw. Then you would modify the search slightly to also search by url prefix to limit the scope to the desired department. Or you can search across all departments. Please read the other messages I referred you to initially then let us know if you have specific questions.