This page allows you to create a new collection on your server. You can also
insert documents into the new collection while you are creating a new
collection.
A collection is a structure of storing an indexed data for a set of documents.
A collection's indexed data is referred to as meta data which describes
meta information about documents, including document record and word indexes..
You should choose a name for a new collection. This name will be
used for collection maintenance and searching. Your admin server creates
one directory for one collection in subdirectory plugins/search/collections
under your server root.
You can describe a collection yourself for all kinds of purposes. For example,
you might want to remember what the collection is for by typing in "This
is for sales".
A collection has one directory which contains original documents in this
collection. When you first time create a collection, you should give a
fullpath name to that directory to indicate where the original documents
are. Once it is created, you can not change it. Search engine will refer to
this directory to find original documents for index and retrieval.
The indexing process will also index files in subdirectories if you like.
For example, you can index the directory /mypath/documents
and organize your documents into /mypath/documents/sales and
/mypath/documents/marketing.
If you select recursive, it will index all the document recursively
from the place you specify in insert document entry below.
We support two file types now. It tells the server how to treat those
files when indexing those files. One collection can has only one file type.
To insert document(s), enter a relative directory or a document name and
the server will index those files now. Be sure to enter a path relative to
the directory to index. For example, if you specified the
directory to index as /mypath/documents and want to index all the documents in
/mypath/documents/public directory, just enter "public".