Word Wheel
Overview
What to Do
Dialog Controls
Troubleshooting
The Word
Wheel dialog appears when you click a Word Wheel button on a search
screen.
The Word
Wheel dialog shows indexed information that you can search
for. To do a search, paste an item from the dialog onto
the search form, then
submit the query. This eliminates trial-and-error searching
and makes searching easier. The Word Wheel uses Index Streaming™ technology
to download only the part of the index you are browsing,
to minimize load
on the server. NOTE: The Word Wheel requires version 3.0
or later of Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer.
- To
make the Word Wheel dialog display words or terms (complete
entries), use the Words List or Terms
List control at the bottom of the dialog.
- Select
a word or term from the list:
If scroll bars do not appear, click in the list and use the keyboard keys
to navigate.
-OR- Type one or more characters in the Find box and click Go
to to move to that item or the nearest match in the list.
- Click Paste to
paste the word or term onto the search form.
- [optional]
Paste additional items, in which case an "OR" search
will be done (cat / dog).
- Click
the SEARCH button on the search form.
Each part
of the Word Wheel dialog is explained below.
Find
/ Go to
Type one
or more characters then click the Go to button to
move to that item (or to the closest matching item) in the Choices
List.
Choices
List / Keys / Hits
The Choices
List consists of two columns, Hits and Keys. The Keys list
shows indexed information that you can search for. You see words
or terms, depending on which option is selected at the bottom of
the dialog. The Hits list indicates the number of
records that contain that word or term in the field you
are searching (see the "Field" list at the bottom of the
dialog).
Words
List / Terms List
A term
is a complete entry, such as the title of a document. If a field has
both types of indexes, you can switch between them by selecting Words
List or Terms List. For example, the Terms
List for a Title field shows the complete title of each
document ("New
Marketing Survey"), while the Words List shows each word individually.
This means you can search for either a single word (just "marketing")
or a complete term.
Field
The Field list
shows which field's index you are viewing. This is useful
when a box searches more than one field. For example, a
box labeled "Any
word or phrase" could search several different fields. Select
a different field from the list to see information stored
in that field. You can paste criteria from any field listed,
to search for the pasted
item(s).
Paste
Click Paste to
paste the selected item from the Choices List into a box
on the search form. You can paste more than one item (one
at a time). A Boolean "OR" symbol
is added between items that you paste. For example, if you paste "health" and "policy" the
search form will contain health / policy. When you
submit the query, you will find documents that contain either the word health OR
the word policy (or both). Before submitting the query,
you can change the Boolean symbol to & (which
represents AND) or ! (which represents NOT).
Having
trouble using a Word Wheel? Some of the most common problems are listed
below. If you don't find an answer here, take a look at common
error messages, listed in alphabetical order.
The Word
Wheel buttons on a search form don't appear or don't work.
Word Wheel
buttons are an option that the administrator may have included on a
search form. They provide access to a dialog that allows you to browse
indexes. To display Word Wheel buttons and run the Word Wheel, you
need version 3.0 or later of Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet
Explorer.
The Word
Wheel dialog is empty.
Try selecting
a different field from the "Field" drop-list in the Word
Wheel dialog. If the drop-list does not contain any other
fields, the textbase may be inaccessible, missing, or damaged.
Contact the site's
webmaster. Another possibility is that your web browser
does not the requirements listed above. Obtain a newer
version of the browser.
To verify
that the problem is with the Word Wheel itself (and not with the search
screen), do a simple search in the same search box. If the search does
not work, then the problem is not specifically with the Word Wheel.
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