INM Searchable Library Manual
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1. SEARCH_Complex student amp boy girl member RS SearchableLib SQLSelect strSQL SEARCH_COMPLEX also allows you to specify the proximity of search terms using the following syntax Search_Complex word1 w 3 word2 w 5 word3 Proximity example find PDFs containing accounting within 5 words of news strSQL SELECT FROM SEARCHABLE_LIBRARY WHERE amp SEARCH_Complex accounting w 5 news member RS SearchableLib SQLSelect strSQL Relevancy ranking Relevancy ranking is an optional feature that can be applied to any of the Searchable Library functions It assigns a percentage to each PDF document retrieved based on how relevant that document is compared to the other PDFs that are returned from the search operation In other words the relevancy ranking of a particular PDF with respect to the search query will be different depending on the other PDF documents indexed within the Searchable Library Factors that influence the relevancy rank calculation are e The number of times the search term occurs within the PDF Searchable Library Manual doc p 23 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 e The number of times the search term occurs across the collection of PDFs e The number of words within the PDF e The frequencies of words within the PDF e The total number of PDFs in the Searchable Library When Relevancy ranking is applied to a search query PDFs that have a relevancy rank2. 1b Indexing options Click the Options button to change any of the default indexing options Indexing options include the ability to omit certain common terms from the index called Stop Words and to specify a minimum length word to be indexed The default Stop Words depend on the language chosen for the database However you may modify this list and your selections are saved for the current database Indexing Options Specify the options for indexing your PDF content Select Indexing Options Include Numbers in Index C ra Minimum Word Length 3 Sil Stop words must be separated by commas a an as aa I a about an are as at be by com de en for From how in is it la of on or that the this to was what when where who will with un the www Default Settings Indexing Options dialog Step 2 Scan for Metadata Before indexing the text within the PDFs there is an initial Scanning for Metadata process which retrieves the document metadata properties such as Title Author Subject CreationDate etc including custom properties from each PDF Once this process is complete you are presented with a list of the metadata found and the number of PDFs within the set that contain each property You then have the choice to include or exclude each field of metadata from the SEARCHABLE_TABLE structure by checking or unchecking the box next to that metadata You must complete this proces
3. How to Create a Searchable Library of PDFs Using INM Impressario 3 0 and INM VizionDB 4 1 For Macromedia Director Integration New Media Inc 1995 2006 Version 1 0 2006 11 10 INM Contents Contents 2 Copyright and trademark notice 4 Introduction 5 Requirements 5 Using the trial version 5 Special Package Pricing 6 Installing the required files 6 Before you begin 7 Adding metadata to your PDFs 7 Organization of the PDF files 8 How to build a Searchable Library of PDFs 9 Create an INM VizionDB database 9 The Searchable Library Wizard 10 Validate the Results 13 Implementing a Search Panel in Your Project 15 Steps to integrate the Search Panel into your interface 15 Step 1 Insert an Impressario member 15 Step 2 Insert INM VizionDB Database and Recordset members 15 Step 3 Insert the Search Panel 15 Step 4 Attach the Search Panel Behavior 16 Step 5 Run your movie 17 Creating Custom Search Interfaces 18 Searchable Library Behaviors 18 Step 1 Create search fields and buttons 18 Step 2 Insert the Impressario and INM VizionDB members19 Step 3 Use the Searchable Library behaviors 20 Scripting API for the Searchable Library 22 INM VizionDB SQLSelect Search Operators 22 Relevancy ranking 23 Other related INM Impressario methods and properties 24 Deploying your project 26 Ensure VizionDB and Impressario members are licensed 26 Searchable Library Manual doc p 2 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 E Fi
4. accessed via Xtras gt INM Impressario gt Enter Key and Xtras gt INM VizionDB gt Enter Key in Director Once you have entered your full license key open your project double click one of your Impressario members in the cast to open the Impressario member options window and click OK to make sure the member is stamped as licensed Do the same for one of your INM VizionDB Recordset members to ensure that the database is opened and closed at least once after your license is entered Files to include When you publish your projector you don t need to have the Xtras included within the projector You will instead include the following folders for each of the products within a folder named Xtras beside your projector e The Runtime folder for Impressario remove the Resources folder to save space e The Runtime vzd folder for INM VizionDB Be sure that your own project files are in located in the proper locations e PDF files are placed within your movie s folder hierarchy in the relative folder location that was used when you created your Searchable Library e The INM VizionDB database file vzd is placed in the folder next to your movie e The Searchable Library Index file vxd is next to the INM VizionDB database file Make sure the path to the database is specified as a relative path in the INM VizionDB Database member properties dialog If you are creating a cross platform CD consult our Knowledgebase for arti
5. Searchable Library vzd 32 CX n ih Oh a ve Table SEARCHABLE LIBRARY DOCID FILEPATH 10 PDF s cupid pdt 214 PDF sileapfrog 3 2 PDFsimatchgir 43 PDF si princess a IN to see which could jana jighest and they invited the whole wort copes else besides who chose to the festival Three famous jumpers were everyone would say when they all met toge the rocm will give my daughter to him who jumps highest exclaimed the King for it is not so amusing where there is no prize to jump for Continue v PDFsileapfrog pat Double click anywhere within a PDF record in the main table to view the document on screen Click Tools gt Searchable Library Info to view the indexing options that were in effect when the Searchable Library was created as well as the total number of PDFs total number of words indexed and a list of the indexed words which you can export to a text file For more information on using the INM VizionDB Editor consult the INM VizionDB Editor User Manual P4 Searchable Library Manual doc p 14 27 EA Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 Implementing a Search Panel in Your Project Now that you have a Searchable Library VizionDB database you need to create an interface that end users interact with to search and retrieve PDF content The easiest way to do this is to use the pre defined Flash based Search Panel that comes with I
6. beds None but a real nole words only could have had such a delicate sense of feeling Display relevancy The Prince accordingly made her his wife being now convinced that he had found a real Continue Search v INM Impressario Search Panel Sample 2003 2006 used under license by Integration New Media Inc Search Panel sample movie Step 4 Attach the Search Panel Behavior Drag the Search Panel Behavior member from the Searchable Library castlib onto the Search Panel sprite on stage The Search Panel Behavior parameters dialog opens Make sure your Impressario sprite channel is correctly selected in the Impressario sprite channel dropdown and click OK to close the behavior dialog X Searchable Library Manual doc p 16 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 Step 5 Run your movie Run your movie and test out the options of the Search Panel Type one or more search terms and choose the type of search you want e Match Exact word or phrase finds only PDFs that contain the exact sequence of words entered e Match Any returns the PDFs that contain any of the words entered e Match All returns only PDFs that contain all of the words entered e Complex search allows you to enter complex search criteria It interprets Boolean operators such as amp and AND OR and NOT as well as wildcard characters and Click Search to retrieve the list of matching documents Click one of the PDF documents return
7. members configured you will need to open the castlib named Searchable Library cst that was included with the Searchable Library Toolkit If you K Searchable Library Manual doc p 15 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 copied this file to the Libs INM Impressario Tools folder within the Director folders you can access it through the Library Palette The castlib contains a Flash member named Impressario Search Panel and a corresponding behavior named Search Panel Behavior Drag the Impressario Search Panel member to the stage Position the panel on screen so that it is not overlapping the Impressario sprite Vaan XC Impressario Search Panel Sample WINM BSSmeGGCOGOw MoOAIDeo a Ahat word or phrase would you like to search for prince night Return results containing The Real Princesq Match Exact word or phrase x Upon this bed the Princess was to pass the night Use these additional criteria The next morning she was asked how she had slept Oh very Ti v badly indeed she replied I have scarcely closed my eyes the fL_ Whole hight through do not know what was in my bed but had something hard under me and am all over black and blue It has hurt me so much v v am Now it was plain that the lady must be a real Princess since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the METO anny OEM Gr ds twenty mattresses and twenty feather
8. F documents that conform to PDF Standard 1 4 1 6 e INM Impressario 3 0 for Director e INM VizionDB Desktop version 4 1 e Mac OS X 10 2 8 Mac OS X 10 4 e Windows NT 2000 XP Using the trial version In order to deliver the Searchable Library feature in your project you need to purchase a license for both the Full version of INM Impressario 3 and INM VizionDB Desktop 4 1 However you can try out this feature using the trial versions of these two products The trial versions provide all the functionality of the licensed versions except that there are splash screens that appear to warn that you are using a trial version and you eventually need to purchase a real license K Searchable Library Manual doc p 5 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 Special Package Pricing Due to the popularity of the Searchable Library solution you can purchase licenses for both INM Impressario and INM VizionDB together at a significant cost savings See The Essential Pack for Director on our web site for more details www INM com products essential Installing the required files 1 Download the installers for INM VizionDB 4 1 and INM Impressario 3 When you download the installers a Trial Key for each one will be sent to your e mail address Keep these trial keys handy so that you can enter the appropriate key for each installer when prompted 2 First run the installer for INM VizionDB 4 1 If you are on Mac also run the separa
9. Wizard Conclusion e Searchable Library table has been created You can view its contents in the main datagrid window and search for specific words using the Query Designer INM Click Tools gt Searchable Library Info to view the indexing Searchab le options used and the list of words indexed Library Wiza rd Total number of PDFs 4 Total words indexed 2527 After indexing all PDFs the conclusion screen displays the total number of PDFs and the total words indexed Validate the Results Once you are done building the index you can view the contents of the Searchable_Library table within the INM VizionDB Editor s main screen You can sort the PDFs by any of the metadata fields filename title etc To search within the VizionDB Editor and validate search results using the View gt Filter with Criteria function or using the Query Designer Tool Filter Records This filter identifies records that match the criteria you specify here Field Operator Value lt TEXT gt anvo x little Operator SUBJECT contains Sort By P4 Searchable Library Manual doc p 13 27 EA Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 Filter with Criteria allows you to do quick spot checking of your PDF content Double click a PDF record in the main table to open a PDF viewer from which you can flip through the pages to verify the document s contents C INM VizionDB Editor
10. ase Examples simple search for any of the search terms entered by the user strSQL SELECT FROM SEARCHABLE_LIBRARY WHERE amp SEARCH_ANY dog cat member RS SearchableLib SQLSelect strSQL SEARCH_ALL This function only retrieves documents that contain all of the words specified the equivalent of a Boolean AND operator between words simple search for documents containing all of the search terms strSQL SELECT FROM SEARCHABLE_LIBRARY WHERE amp SEARCH_ALL amp member user entry text amp member RS SearchableLib SQLSelect strSQL Searchable Library Manual doc p 22 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 SEARCH_COMPLEX This function interprets Boolean operators such as amp and AND OR and NOT and wildcard characters any number of unspecified characters and a single unspecified character Parentheses are also interpreted to allow the construction of complex search criteria when Search_Complex is used Wildcard example find all PDFs containing words that start with t and end with r strSQL SELECT FROM SEARCHABLE_LIBRARY WHERE amp SEARCH_Complex t r member RS SearchableLib SQLSelect strSQL This search retrieves all documents containing words such as theater terminator and tear Boolean search example find PDFs containing student and either boy or girl strSQL SELECT FROM SEARCHABLE_LIBRARY WHERE amp
11. brary Recordset member Impressario sprite is in channel Field or text member containing text to search Display Find dialog upon opening PDF C K Searchable Library Manual doc p 21 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 Scripting API for the Searchable Library If you are comfortable using Lingo and SQL and you want the flexibility to define your own search interface or dynamically conduct a search based on certain user interactions through your application you can use the INM VizionDB and INM Impressario methods and properties outlined below INM VizionDB SQLSelect Search Operators The following Search operators are used within a SELECT query passed to the SQLSelect method They are only recognized by INM VizionDB and can only be used with the Searchable_Library table Not that the search terms must be enclosed by single quotes inside the SQLSELECT string SEARCH_EXACT INM VizionDB will return the PDF documents that match the exact phrase entered but ignoring punctuation Examples simple search for exact text entered by the user strSQL SELECT FROM SEARCHABLE_LIBRARY WHERE WHERE amp SEARCH_EXACT amp member user entry text amp member RS SearchableLib SQLSelect strSQL SEARCH_ANY Searches for any of the individual words or phrases entered by the user performs a Boolean OR between words or phrases Quotes can be used to group words together into a phr
12. cles on how to publish your projects for cross platform CD delivery Test your project on each anticipated delivery platform before burning large quantities of CDs DVDs K Searchable Library Manual doc p 26 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 Customization of the Searchable Library Solution INM has provided a variety of pre scripted tools and API s to accommodate typical searching needs However as project specifications vary widely you may have specific needs that are not met directly by our built in Searchable Library function or other development tools If you have a specific project need that you are not able to accomplish using the tools provided we may be able to develop a solution that is tailored to your specific needs Contact INM Consulting Services if you would like more information on the type of customization we can do and for an estimate Custom document properties If you would like to store additional information about each PDF document in the database depending on the application you use to generate the PDF files you may be able to create custom document properties Refer to Adobe Acrobat s documentation and the documentation of the application that generates your PDF files for information on adding custom document properties K Searchable Library Manual doc p 27 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006
13. database is relative to the movie location e Filename property Set the Impressario member s filename to the filename of the PDF selected by the user Searchable Library Manual doc p 24 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 e Highlighting property This is a sprite property Set the Highlighting of the Impressario sprite channel to True so that when you perform the Find operation all found words are highlighted e Find method This is the sprite method that searches through the PDF document open within the sprite for the first occurrence of the search text specified The Find method can accept a single search term or phrase one highlight color is used or a list of multiple search terms or phrases a different color is used to highlight each item in the list e SetHighlightColors method This is a sprite method that allows you to change the list of RGB colors used to highlight each separate word or phrase of the search text found within the document Consult the INM Impressario User Manual for full descriptions of these properties and methods a Searchable Library Manual doc p 25 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 Deploying your project Ensure VizionDB and Impressario members are licensed When you are ready to deploy your project you need to make sure you have purchased licenses for INM VizionDB 4 and INM Impressario 3 Be sure to enter the real license key and replace the trial key in the Enter Key dialogs
14. documents either created or modified within the date range specified In the parameters dialog box specify which VizionDB Recordset contains the Searchable Library which field contains Date 1 the beginning of the range which field contains Date 2 the end of the range which field to put the results in and which date property to search Parameters for SearchDateRange Searchable Library Recordset member RSS earchableLibrary member 8 of castLib 1 Date is in field txt StartDate member 28 of castLib 1 Date is in field tLe ndDate member 29 of castLib 1 Date Property to search IM 0 DIFYDATE Field or text member to list results txt_Results member 5 of castLib 1 4 Drag the behavior named Open Found PDF onto the Director field or text member that will contain the results of your search This behavior requires you to identify the Searchable Library Recordset the Impressario sprite channel in which to open the selected document the member containing the text to find within the document and a checkbox to display the Find dialog upon opening the document When you select a PDF document listed in the search results list the document is opened and the search text is highlighted if it is found within the text of the document If you are doing a search by document property the search text may not be found within the document s text Parameters for Open Found PDF Searchable Li
15. earch for and which member to list the results in Parameters for SearchFullText Searchable Library Recordset member RAS SearchableLibrary member 8 of castLib 1 Field or text member containing text to search txt_SearchT ext member 4 of castLib 1 Field or text member to list results tt Results member 5 of castLib 1 The search function used in the SearchFullText behavior is Search_ANY it will retrieve PDFs that contain any of the search terms entered 2 Drag the behavior named SearchMetaData onto a button to search for PDFs based on a document property such as Title Author Subject Keyword etc In the parameters dialog box specify which VizionDB Recordset contains the Searchable Library which member contains the text to search for which PDF document property to search which member to list the results in and Parameters for SearchMetaData Searchable Library Recordset member Field or text member containing text to search txt_SearchT ext member 4 of castLib 1 SUBJECT v Document property to search E Field or text member to list results Da Searchable Library Manual doc p 20 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 Note To use the SearchMetaData behavior your PDF documents must be saved with the appropriate document property information 3 Drag the behavior named SearchDateRange onto the button that will search for
16. ed in the Search Results list The PDF appears on screen with the search terms highlighted in different colors Try a search on two or more terms with proximity selected Enter a number that indicates the maximum number of words that can separate each of the search terms within the PDF contents and see how the results differ K Searchable Library Manual doc p 17 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 Creating Custom Search Interfaces If you prefer to implement your own search interface in Director rather than use the Search Panel that comes with Impressario you can use the Searchable Library behaviors provided or even code your own search functionality directly using the scripting API for INM VizionDB and INM Impressario The sections below describe each of these options Searchable Library Behaviors For a customized look and feel without needing to code in Lingo try the Searchable Library behaviors which are accessible via Director s Library Palette An example movie named Search Sample dir is provided in the Searchable Library package so that you can get an idea of how the behaviors work Step 1 Create search fields and buttons To implement the search functionality of our sample movie in your own project you will need e One editable field or text member for the user to enter the text to search for within the PDF e One button that performs a search within the text of each PDF document e One non editab
17. le field to display the list of PDF documents that match the search criteria e An Impressario Sprite to display the PDF document that the user selects from the results field Optional fields and buttons e One editable field or text member for the user to enter the text to search for within a document property e Two editable fields to input the beginning and end dates for a search by date range e At least one button to search within a particular PDF document property e One button to search for documents either created or modified within a specified date range K Searchable Library Manual doc p 18 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 7 INM ne Impressario Search Behaviors Sample BAAO oean D e Type Search text here frog prince frog The leap house built of cards to live in grew thinner than the before for sheer vexation when they heard me Results Click to display PDF P It was thus that the Flea and the Grasshopper gave an The Leap Frog of themselves and thought they were quite good en The Real Princess mania eaaa The Leap frog said nothing but people gave it as their o that he therefore thought the more and when the snuffed at him with his nose he confessed the Leap good family The old councillor who had had three orders give him to make him hold his tongue asserted that the Leap was a prophet for that one could see on his back if there wou be a severe or mild
18. les to include Customization of the Searchable Library Solution Custom document properties Searchable Library Manual doc Integration New Media Inc 26 27 27 p 3 27 10 Nov 2006 Copyright and trademark notice The INM VizionDB Editor is free to use and redistribute Integration New Media Inc withholds all rights to the INM VizionDB Editor Please refer to the license agreement on the VizionDB website for additional information on INM VizionDB copyright requirements http www VizionDB com Adobe Acrobat Macromedia Director and Xtra are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and or other countries Apple Mac and Macintosh are trademarks or registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc in the United States and or other countries Microsoft Windows and Windows NT are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation registered in the U S and or other countries Valentina is a trademark of Paradigma Software Inc Adobe product screen shot s reprinted with permission from Adobe Systems Incorporated INM VizionDB includes Onix Search and Retrieval Tools 1994 2006 Lextek International http www lextek com Other trademarks trade names and product names contained in this manual may be the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby acknowledged Searchable Library Manual doc p 4 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 Introd
19. mpressario Steps to integrate the Search Panel into your interface Follow these steps to implement a Searchable Library in your Director movie Step 1 Insert an Impressario member Create a Director movie and insert a member of type Impressario if you have not already done so See instructions for Inserting an Impressario Member in Xtras gt INM Impressario gt Help Online files if you need more information You may choose to link a PDF document to your member to display an initial PDF or leave the filename property empty initially The PDF documents that the user selects from the Search Results will be linked and displayed dynamically at runtime Step 2 Insert INM VizionDB Database and Recordset members Next you need to insert your INM VizionDB cast members Click Insert gt Integration New Media gt INM VizionDB Database Browse to locate the INM VizionDB database containing the Searchable Library Click OK to close the INM VizionDB Database member dialog An INM VizionDB Recordset member is automatically created for you in your Director cast Give both the INM VizionDB Database and Recordset members names DB and RS so that you can easily refer to them later Double click the Recordset member to open its dialog Make sure the Table selected in the dialog is Searchable_Table and that all fields are selected Step 3 Insert the Search Panel Once you have your INM Impressario sprite on stage and your INM VizionDB
20. mpressario First Steps Tutorial Fonts Initial View Author Integration New Media Inc Security Subject INM s Impressario Keywords Impressario tutorial Advanced Custom Created 24 10 2003 2 44 52 PM Modified 24 10 2003 2 51 16 PM Application Acrobat PDFMaker 6 0 for Word Document Properties window in Acrobat 6 0 Note that the Created and Modified dates are controlled by Acrobat and cannot be changed from this window DY a Searchable Library Manual doc p 7 27 a Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 Organization of the PDF files Gather all the PDFs that you want to include in the Searchable Library within a folder hierarchy where the top level folder the root will contain the INM VizionDB database that contains the Searchable Library The Searchable Library function can index PDF files that are located either in the same folder or in subfolders of the open INM VizionDB database You will also need to place your Director movie at this root level when deploying your project because the Searchable Library database stores the PDF documents paths Relative to the moviePath In the example folder structure shown below the database named Searchable Library vzd as well as the movie named myMovie dir are located the top level of the folder hierarchy and the PDFs are located within subfolders of the PDFs folder Folders X Name O MyProject A File Folde
21. of less than 40 are automatically excluded from the results list Relevancy ranking can be applied to any of the Searchable Library functions by adding a list of keywords as a second parameter and specifying the field name Relevancy in your SQL SELECT query The Relevancy field is a virtual field that is appended to the results You can sort your results in order of relevancy by specifying ORDER BY RELEVANCY in the SQL statement Examples mySQL SELECT Relevancy amp FROM searchable_library amp WHERE SEARCH_ALLC rabbit flower rabbit flower ORDER BY Relevancy mySQL SELECT Relevancy amp FROM searchable_library amp WHERE SEARCH_Exact healthcare provider healthcare plan ORDER BY Relevancy mySQL SELECT Relevancy amp FROM searchable_library amp WHERE Subject LIKE Fairytale AND amp SEARCH_EXACT happliy ever after AND amp SEARCH_ALLC prince prince charming castle ORDER BY Relevancy Other related INM Impressario methods and properties Once you have a retrieved a list of PDFs using the INM VizionDB search methods use the following methods and properties to open the selected PDF document in an Impressario member and perform the Find and highlighting operations e PathType property Set the Impressario member s PathType to RelativeToMovie before setting the Filename property because the filename provided by the INM VizionDB
22. r C3 PDFs D Courset OPOFs O Course2 _ Macromedia Director Movie O Course3 a myMovie dir 2D File x Searchable Library v2d Typical folder structure for a Searchable Library project Searchable Library Manual doc p 8 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 How to build a Searchable Library of PDFs Even if you don t have a collection of PDFs to use you can test out the functionality of the Searchable Library using the sample PDFs that come with the Searchable Library sample movies If you already have your own PDFs to work with feel free to follow the steps below using those Start by opening the INM VizionDB Editor e On Windows click Start gt All Programs gt Integration New Media gt INM VizionDB gt INM VizionDB Editor e On Mac OS X open the INM VizionDB Editor from Applications gt Integration New Media gt INM VizionDB Editor Create an INM VizionDB database 1 From the INM VizionDB Editor menu click New Database gt From Scratch If you already have an INM VizionDB database in which to create your Searchable Library just open that existing database 2 Choose a language for your database 3 Browse to the root folder where your PDFs are located see Organization of the PDF files give the new database a name and click OK 4 The Modify Database Structure dialog opens by default Click Create Searchable Library from that dialog The Searchable Library Wizard opens 5 Proceed to
23. s if you want to allow users to search based on metadata or if you want to display PDF titles rather than just the filenames in the search results list that your end user sees Otherwise if you just want to allow users to search the complete PDF text and you are content to display the relative path names you may skip the scanning process Searchable Library Manual doc p 11 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 Create Searchable Library Wizard Step 2 of 3 optional This step scans each PDF for metadata document properties IF you do not want end users to search on metadata click Next to skip this Click scan to begin scanning For metadata Scan Metadata found and number of documents M createdate 4 O creator 1 description 4 metadatadate 4 modifydate 4 producer 4 subject 4 title 4 Step 2 Scan for Metadata Step 3 Build the Index In this step the text of each PDF document is read and indexed so that fast searches can be performed by the end user The amount of time it takes to index the PDFs depends directly on the amount of text in your PDFs When this step is done a new index file is created next to your INM VizionDB database This file must be kept next to your INM VizionDB database in order to perform any searches on the indexed PDF content Searchable Library Manual doc p 12 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 Create Searchable Library
24. te installer for the INM VizionDB Editor 3 Then run the installer for INM Impressario 3 This will place the necessary PDF Libraries in the correct folder location to be accessed by the INM VizionDB Editor Once you purchase the full licenses for the two products you will enter your username company name and license keys in the Enter Key dialogs for each product from the Director Xtras menu Searchable Library Manual doc p 6 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 Before you begin Adding metadata to your PDFs The Searchable Library Wizard of the INM VizionDB Editor not only indexes the full text of your PDF documents but can optionally create database fields for the metadata document properties that describe your PDF documents such as Title Author Subject Keywords Date Created and Date Modified as well as any custom properties you have defined If you want to allow your end users to be able to search for content based on metadata you need to save the documents with the appropriate information to classify them in a way that makes sense for your application In Acrobat 6 or higher select File gt Document Properties from the menu bar and view the Description pane in Acrobat 5 0 select File gt Document Properties gt Summary or type Ctrl D on the keyboard The following window appears where you can add or change the current document s properties Document Properties E x m Description Title I
25. the next section The Searchable Library Wizard K Searchable Library Manual doc p 9 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 The Searchable Library Wizard If you followed the steps above to create a new Searchable Library from scratch you have already opened the Searchable Library Wizard If you are starting with a previously existing INM VizionDB database click Tools gt Create Searchable Library to start the wizard Step 1 Select the folder to Index The first step is to select the root folder name at which the tool will begin reading and indexing the PDFs The Searchable Library wizard will only store the PDF document pathnames relative to the database location that is why the database should also be created at this root level Create Searchable Library Wizard Step 1 of 3 Specify the Folder where PDF documents are located Only PDF s within this Folder and subfolders will be included Searchable Library index mpressario pLIBRA Samples Searchable Library Searchable Library v2x Select the Folder containing your PDFs ror Type in a password if your PDFs are password protected They must all have the same password Click Options to change the default indexing options Minimun word length Stop words and Numbers P m lt Back Next gt Cancel Step 1 Specify the folder where the PDFs are located Searchable Library Manual doc p 10 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006
26. uction Allowing users to search through a collection of PDF resources has always been a popular feature in interactive publications Previous versions of INM Impressario had a tool called the PDF Indexer which combined the power of the INM V12 Database Xtra and INM Impressario to enable this functionality We have now improved this functionality by combining INM VizionDB and INM Impressario 3 The PDF indexing functionality now called Building a Searchable Library is done at authoring time directly within the INM VizionDB Editor When implementing your Searchable Library in Director Impressario 3 now includes a Flash based Search Panel similar to the Adobe search panel which you can drag and drop on stage with no coding necessary This search panel incorporates the new and more powerful search features provided by INM VizionDB including the ability to do Boolean and wildcard searches specify proximity of two or more search terms and display relevancy scores in your results list This manual contains all the information you need to build a Searchable Library and integrate the Flash based search panel in Adobe Director It also provides a list of relevant methods of INM VizionDB and INM Impressario that you can use to customize the Searchable Library for your own project needs Further details for the scripting API s of INM VizionDB and INM Impressario are provided within those resources Requirements e Director MX or higher e PD
27. winter and that was what one could not see even on the back of the man who writes the almanac Continue v a INM Impressario Search Behaviors Sample 2003 2006 used under license by Integration New Media Inc Search Sample with Behaviors Step 2 Insert the Impressario and INM VizionDB members The Searchable Library behaviors can only be used if both INM Impressario and INM VizionDB are installed and you have members of type INM Impressario INM VizionDB Database and INM VizionDB Recordset in your movie If you have not already inserted INM Impressario and INM VizionDB members into your movie follow the first two steps of the section entitled Steps to integrate the Search Panel into your interface Da Searchable Library Manual doc p 19 27 Integration New Media Inc 10 Nov 2006 Step 3 Use the Searchable Library behaviors From Director s menu bar click Windows gt Library Palette to open Director s library palette Locate the INM Searchable Library Behaviors by clicking the menu button in the top left corner of the palette There are just four behaviors e SearchFullText e SearchMetaData e SearchDateRange e OpenFoundPDF 1 Drag the behavior named SearchFullText onto the button that will search through the text of the PDF documents The parameters dialog box opens and you must specify which INM VizionDB Recordset contains the Searchable Library which member contains the text to s
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