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. Or you can choose to add documents later. 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..
First, 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. Now you can insert document(s) to this collection if you want. Or you can skip this and just create this new collection without any documents in it. To insert document(s), choose add documents and 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".