Working With Categories
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Note: Because categories are determined by your administrator,
it is possible that your network does not provide categories or that
some individual documents have not been assigned to any category.
Most iPlanet Compass Servers have their own, unique set of
categories that organize the documents they index. A
category is a collection of
documents grouped by common subject matter. It is possible for one
document to be listed under multiple categories.
One way to find information on your network is to go to the category
that covers the subject you are interested in and view the list of
documents in that category.
Categories can contain subcategories, forming a hierarchy of categories.
By browsing through this hierarchy, you can move to more specific categories,
each containing documents concerning a more precisely defined subject.
Your site administrator designs your category structure.
For example, a company organized into various divisions might choose to
categorize their documents by division. To view documents created by
the Sales division, you would go to the Sales category.
Your Current Category
At any given moment, iPlanet Compass Server is oriented toward one
particular category. This is called the current category. If
you are browsing by category, the subcategories and documents displayed
are those of the current category.
The name of your current category appears above the search box.
If you are in a subcategory, all the parent
categories above your current category are displayed separated by colons.
The category farthest to the right on that line is your current category.
For example, Compass:Companies:iPlanet indicates
that your current category is "iPlanet," which is a subcategory of
"Companies," which is a subcategory of "Compass."
Below the search box on a Search page is a list of subcategories
that are below your current category, followed by a list of the
documents in the current category (if any).
- Click a category's name to go to it. You can click the name of a
parent category above the search box or the name of a subcategory in
the list below the box. Each time you click a new category, a list of
documents in the category is displayed along with any subcategories.
- Click a document's title or URL to view it.
Finding Documents by Category
There are three ways to find documents by category:
Browsing Categories from Search Pages
To browse through categories for documents from a Search page,
follow these steps:
- Click a category name to go to that category.
- Clicking one of the parent category names listed above the search
box moves you up to higher parent categories.
- Clicking one of the subcategory names listed below the search
box moves you down to a subcategory.
Each time you go to a new category, that category becomes your current
category and a list of its documents and subcategories is displayed.
- To view a document, click its title or URL.
Using the Category Browser
The Category Browser can be expanded to display all of the categories
on your network.
You can use the Category Browser to find and go to the category
you need. An example Category Browser looks like this:
To use the Category Browser, follow these steps:
- Click Category Browser at the top of whatever page
you are on.
A Category Browser window is displayed. (Depending on how many
categories your network has, it may take a few moments to display
the category list.) It may be that only the top category, or some
subset of categories, are shown.
- A right arrow to the left of the category name indicates that there
are undisplayed subcategories.
- A down arrow to the left of the category name indicates that all
of the subcategories immediately below are already shown.
- If there is no arrow to the left of the category name, that category
has no subcategories.
- Use the Category Browser to navigate through categories as
follows:
- Go to a category by clicking the category name.
When you click a category name, your Search page is redisplayed
showing the category you clicked as the new current category.
- Expand the category listings by clicking the right arrow
to the left
of a category name. For example, to expand the Business
Conditions category shown above, you click the right arrow.
- Contract the category listings by clicking the down arrow
to the left of
a category name. This collapses the display of all
the category's subcategories.
Finding Similarly Categorized Documents
Your iPlanet Compass Server administrator can specify that when a document is
listed as the result of a search, a link is provided to that
document's category. For example, the link might read:
Find similarly categorized documents. When you click
this type of link, that document's category becomes your current
category, and all of the documents in that category are listed for
you.
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