Creating Indexes from Scratch

If the default indexes included with Horizon do not meet the needs of your library, you can create an index from scratch. (For example, you may want to create a new keyword index.) When you create an index from scratch, you do all the necessary tasks on the database and in the Horizon user interface to set up and use the index to search for and display data.

Regardless of the type of index you create, you do these general tasks in this order:

1. Create database objects for the index.
2. Create a MARC map to use with the index.
3. Create an index definition in the Table Editor.
4. Create a view definition for the index.
5. Add the new index definition to your search options.
6. Populate the index.

If you are unsure about how to do any of the steps in this section, Customer Support can create the index for you for an add-on service fee. To have a new index created for you, contact your Customer Sales Representative for a price quote.

This section explains just two of the many types of indexes that you can create on Horizon. This section explains how to create a certain type of browse index, called a collation key index, which lets you sort and display Unicode characters. This section also explains how to create a keyword search index. The instructions give sample scenarios of the types of keyword indexes you can create.

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