Menu option: Index > Create Index
Name
Enter the name of the index as it should appear in the Search dialog box.
Location
Enter the directory where dtSearch should store the index. By default,
dtSearch will create indexes in your "UserData" folder.
To specify a different location, click Options > Preferences > Indexing Options.
Logging
A Summary only log shows the number
of files added or removed and a list of any files that could not be indexed.
A Detailed log adds a list of
every file added to the index.
Advanced Options
Menu option: Index > Create Index (Advanced)
Cache document text in the
index
Cache documents in the index
dtSearch 7 indexes can store documents in either, or both, of two ways:
(1) the entire original file can be stored, or (2) just the text of the
file can be stored. Stored documents and text are compressed using
ZIP compression. Storing the text of documents makes generation
of search reports much faster, especially generation of the brief hits-in-context
snippet in search results. For more information, see: Caching
Documents and Text in an Index
Case sensitive
Check this box if you want dtSearch to take capitalization into account
in indexing words. In a case sensitive index, APPLE,
Apple, and apple
would be three different words. This option is not recommended because
most users would like to retrieve a document containing Apple
in a search for apple.
Accent sensitive
Check this box if you want dtSearch to take accents into account in indexing
words. Again, for most users this is not recommended, because this
option increases the chance that you will miss retrieving a document if
an accent was omitted in one letter.
Fields to display in search results
List the names of fields in your documents that you want to include in
the search results list, along with other document properties such as
the filename and date.
Select the index libraries
that should include this index
When you create a new index, it is usually added to your default
index library. The Create Index (Advanced) dialog box lets you
add the index to other libraries in one step. This can be useful
when you are sharing indexes on
a network.