The default screen displayed under the "Search Document" primary tab has a tab labeled "Subject". As can be seen below, this screen is setup to search "Title", "Abstact", and "Key Word" fields for the text entered into the "Subject" text box, perhaps with an "Author(Last Name)" entry.
To carry out a search simply click the Search button on the right. The butterfly icon will 'flap' its wings while the search is going on (and the Search button's label will change to Halt). As local items are found they are added to the table at the bottom of the window. Note that only the 'Local Search' check box is selected in the tool bar. This indicates that only local metadata files are searched. Selecting the 'Catalog Search' check box prior to a Search will send the query to the remote metadata catalog, and (currently) a second window will appear showing results from the remote metadata catalog.
A "Local Search" will search all files in the 'local xml directory' which is defined in the client.properties file. All files in this directory and any of its subdirectories will be searched. Non-XML files in this directory may cause error messages, but MORPHO should then just continue looking at additional files after printing the error message. Note that the first time a local search is carried out is expected to be considerably slower than subsequent searchs due to the loading of Java classes and file caching that occurs only on the first search.
The results of a search are called a "result set". Each successful 'hit' is displayed as one row in the result set table. To find out more information about the document that has been 'found' click on a row to select it and then press the 'right' mouse button to bring up a popup menu as indicated below. (Macintosh users should hold the "Ctrl" key while clicking.)
Popup menu for additional information about a result set document
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Displaying a Document found in a query
If the user clicks on the Display Document popup menu, then a window like that shown below will appear. The structure of the XML metadata document referred to by the selected row is show as an expandable outline
Initial Document Display Window
Clicking on any item in the outline will cause a display to appear on the right side of the window that shows the content of that part of the outline and of all of its child elements. The effect of clicking on the top (root) node is shown below. The display on the right is is just a 'nested panel' view of the selected node and all of the nodes below it in the outline.
Document Display Window with root node selected
Another View with Expanded Outline
One can also view the XML document using an XSLT transformation to an HTML format, or look at the actual XML text by selecting on of the other tabs at the bottom of the screen.
HTML View
XML Text View