Using the CD Wizard

The CD Wizard helps you to create one or more CD master folders. Each folder contains a set of documents, software, and dtSearch indexes that is ready to be transferred to a CD.  You can create any number of CD master folders, and each folder can contain any number of document folders and indexes.

Creating a CD

To create a CD master folder,

1.   Install the dtSearch Publish program files on your computer.  
If you have dtSearch Web on CD, run the setup program to install.   If you downloaded dtSearch Web from the internet, follow the download instructions to open the dtSearch Web archive and install the files.

2.   Start the dtSearch CD Wizard
In dtSearch, click dtSearch CD Wizard... in the File menu.  

3.   Make a new CD master folder
Click New CD... to make a new CD master folder, enter the name of the folder for the CD contents, and click OK.  

4.   Add documents to the CD
Click Add Documents... to add documents to the folder.   The Add Documents dialog box will appear.  When the CD master folder is set up, a root\data folder will be created where the documents should be stored.   To add documents to the CD, you can copy them into this folder using Windows Explorer, or you can use the Add Folder... button to have the CD Wizard do this automatically.   When you click OK after selecting a folder to add, all of the documents in the folder will be copied into the CD master folder.

5.   Create an index for the documents
Click Create Index... to create an index for the documents.   You can create any number of indexes on each CD (just click Create Index... for each one).   The process of creating and updating an index works exactly as it does in dtSearch Desktop.

6.   Build a search form
Click the Build Search Form... button to build a search form to use with your site.   You can make as many search forms as you want for each site.
After the search form is built, dtSearch Web will open it in your browser so you can try out a search.   Once you have a basic search form working, you click Build Search Form again to customize the search form, the appearance of search results, and other options, and to create additional search forms.

7.   Make a "home" page for the CD
The home page is the first page that users will see when they insert the CD.   The home page is named index.html and is located in the root\data subfolder of the CD master folder.

Once the CD is done, transfer the contents of the CD master folder to a CD.   Copy the contents of the CD master folder, but not the CD master folder itself.  For example, if the CD master folder is C:\CDMaster, there should not be a folder named CDMaster on the CD, but everything in C:\CDMaster should be copied to the CD.  (This way the autorun.inf file that the CD Wizard creates will be in the root folder of the CD.)

Modifying a CD

To add more documents, click Add Documents... and copy additional folders to the CD.   After you have added documents click Update Index... to add the new documents to your indexes.

For information on changing the CD type, see CD Types.

Deleting a CD

To delete a CD master folder, just delete the folder in Windows Explorer.  The CD Wizard will detect that the folder is gone the next time it runs and will remove it from the drop-down list of CD master folders.

"Recognizing" a CD

To access a CD master folder that the CD Wizard does not list (for example, if the CD master folder was copied from another computer), click Recognize CD and browse to the CD master folder.  The CD master folder will be added to the list in the CD wizard.