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| General Overview |
| Using the Search Facility. |
| Member's Public Access |
| Password Reminder |
| Glossary of Terms |
This service retains its look and feel now matter what subscription level you have the only changes are to the number of features and services that are available for you to use. So anything that you learn using the publicly available features can be directly applied to other subscription levels.
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A FAQ is also available for some commonly asked questions.
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You can use the wURLdBook searching feature two ways. One way is to select the kind of search you want to perform from the pulldown list and the other way is in expert mode where you add certain special characters before your keywords to tell wURLdBook what kind of search you want to perform. wURLdBook has several types of search modes:
An absolute search searches your entire web reference collection for any web reference that contains the entered keywords exactly. The resulting page will display the keywords highlighted where they occured.
To initiate an absolute search you must prepend a ":" to the search terms for example if you are looking for the keyword "Taxonomy" your search terms that you would enter into the search text field would look like this ":Taxonomy". This would return all occurrences of the search term "Taxonomy" located either in the web references' url, meta information, or title. The preceding colon to indicate a absolute search is used because wURLdBook has several tools that makes it a convenient way to issue symbolic commands to the wURLdBook system without excessive widgets cluttering up the user interface. Alternatively, if you check off the check box to the right of the search button while in the top most level or home level that will also initiate a absolute search against the entered keywords.
An alias is another way to express a web sites location that potentially is more convenient to remember. A mapping of a URL to a familiar word or even letter for example www.yahoo.com could simple become "y". So when ever "y" is entered you will be presented with the Yahoo! page. An alias resolution search will look through all your web references for an alias that matches the phase that was entered in the search text field. If there is a match your browser will automatically redirected you to that web reference location. If there isn't a match the alias is resolved to a system defined alias. To initiate and alias resolution search just omit the preceding colon in the search terms.
A relative search will search the contents of the dossier that you are currently viewing which includes the contents of it's sub-dossiers for the entered key words and present a results page with the keywords highlighted just like the absolute search results. To initiate a relative search you must prepend a ";"(semi-colon) to your search terms. It is just like the absolute searching paradigm except the semi-colon is used instead.
Why is this style of user interaction used you may ask? Well, because since you are goin to type a keyword search or alias resolutin anyway it is a lot faster than to have to use a check box or some other GUI element. Also, if wURLdBook wanted to expand and create more functions and features there won't be a proliferation of UI elements thus keeping the basic page nice a clean.
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To access a public area select "Access Member's Public Zone" then enter in the member's public id and, if necessary, password then press the View Public button.
With most sevices that offer personal as well as public content the public content typically must be separated from the personal content in a seperate public folder. With wURLdBook, you can intermingle public and personal content anywhere within your hierachy of dossiers and the system will sort out the correct public hierarchy and expose ones containing public content when in public mode.
For example if you have three dossiers: A, B, and C. C is a sub-dossier of B and B is a sub-dossier of A. Now A and C contain public material, when in public view mode only the public material will be viewable and the hierarchy will be presented as C is a sub-dossier of A. B is filtered out because it contains no public content.
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