Start and stop Search Designer

Starting Search Designer

To start Search Designer, go to the Author page. (Your system administrator will provide the URL for Workplace.) Click on Advanced Tools, and then choose Search Designer.

NOTE The Primary Views preference can show or hide the Advanced Tools. Regardless of the preference setting, guest users cannot access Search Designer. See the Site Preferences help for more information on the Primary Views setting.

Selecting Search Designer downloads a Java™ applet to your local disk. You will need to respond to two Security Warning dialog boxes that "grant the session" at least the first time. You can grant just one session or grant always so that you do not have to respond to the dialog boxes each time you start Search Designer.

NOTE  If you ever click Deny in response to the Java™ applet download, you will not be able to download it until you have closed all instances of your browser.

Closing Search Designer

Always using File > Exit when closing Publishing Designer can prevet you from losing any work. When you use Exit on the File menu to close Publishing Designer, you see a dialog that prompts you to save or cancel. If you close the window using any other means, the program terminates immediately with no opportunity to save. If you were modifying a template, this can leave it in a checked out state, and work you have done is not saved. To continue working with the search when you reopen Search Designer, see Assume a checkout.

About window sizes

Java™ applets do not have scroll bars for the window. Various panels inside the window have scroll bars when applicable. If you make the window so small that some items do not appear, just resize it.

General Key Commands

In general, use Tab to move forward and Shift+Tab to move backward between components such as buttons and cells in a table. Use Ctrl+Tab to move out of a table.

When tabbing to buttons in dialogs, press the Spacebar to activate the command. Windows users can also press Alt plus the underlined letter to activate the command.

When a Look in drop-down box is selected, Windows users can press Alt+Down Arrow to drop down the list. Use the Arrow keys to select an item, then press Enter or the Spacebar to choose that item and close the list.

Windows users can use the Alt key in combination with the underlined letter of a menu to open that menu. Release both keys and then type the underlined letter of a menu option to select it.



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