To further help you maximize your users’ searching capability, you can create quick searches that you can organize into categories, similar to the searching categories on search engine sites, such as Yahoo. (For example, you may want to have a recommended reading list or a group of upcoming events. You may also want to create quick searches and group them by Art, Science, Music, Literature, and so forth.) A set of search categories that you want to put together is a “search category group.”
Additionally, you can break down the search categories into sub-categories. (For example, under the search category of Literature, you may want to create sub-categories for Classical, Popular, Modern, and so forth.) Eventually, each search category and sub-category ends in quick searches that your users can perform in Information Portal by simply clicking on the hyperlink.
When you create search categories, you create them in levels, starting with a root search category. Each level can either perform the search that you want, or it can display a sub-category. The structure of search categories is similar to a hierarchy or tree structure. Here is an example of a search category structure:
When you have created a set of root search categories that you want Information Portal to display together on a page, you can put them in search category groups. Once you group search categories, you can assign the search category group to an Information Portal page for users to access and use.
This section explains these topics:
• | Adding Search Categories |
• | Organizing Search Category Groups |
Be sure that you add search categories before you add search category groups. Otherwise, the Administration tool will delete the search category group as soon as you add it.
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