Insight Main Help
Help Summary Screen

Double-clicking on any one of the topics below will open a separate Help screen.

1.	Main Screen - The sub-database buttons defined by the publisher appear here. Select the sub-databases for the query by clicking on the desired buttons. Then click on the Start button to open the Query Screen.

2.	Query Screen - The available querying fields appear here. Type in the data for the query and click onOK

3.	Query Response Window - A visual display of the query's progress and the number of documents and words found appear here. Click OK to open the Viewing Mode Window.

4.	Viewing Mode Window - The options defined by the publisher for viewing the results are displayed here. Click on the desired option to open a screen displaying the query r

5.	Query Results Screen - The query results for the selected viewing option are displayed here.


Main Buttons Screen
Main Screen

This screen serves three purposes:

1.	Selecting the sub-databases for the query

2.	Initiating the query

3.	Getting help

Selecting sub-databases

The sub-database buttons defined by the publisher appear here. Select the sub-databases for the query by clicking on one or more of the buttons.

Initiating the query

Either the default Start button or a similar button defined by the publisher appears here. Clicking on this button opens the Query Screen.

Getting help

Either the default Help button or a similar button defined by the publisher appears here. Clicking on this button or on the Help Menu opens the Help Summary Screen. Pressing the F1 key on a display will open its Help window.


Query Screen

This screen serves four purposes:

1.	Typing in the data for the query

2.	Entering logical operators in the query data

3.	Accessing a thesaurus if desired

4.	Running the query

Typing in the query data

Whatever text you type in here is used in the search, regardless of case. Wildcards can be used as illustrated in the following examples:

Example	Search Output	Example	Search Output

*air	repair, impair, etc.	?air	pair, fair, etc.

air*	aired, airplane, etc.	air?	airy, airs, etc.

*air*	repaired, hairy, etc.	?air?	hairy, fairy, etc.

*air*ng	not permitted	?air?ng	not permitted

pa*ir	pair	pa?ir	won't find pair

Entering logical operators

You can enter logical operators between the textual data in each field as illustrated in the following examples:

Example	Search Output

manager AND director	Finds places where both words occur.

Smith OR Brown	Finds places where either word occurs.

(hardware AND graphics) OR equipment	Finds places where equipment or both hardware and graphics occur.

Accessing a thesaurus

To access a Thesaurus configured for your application, click on the Thesaurus button to pull down the Thesaurus window. This window enables you to enrich the search using synonyms for the field entry.

Running the query

Click on OK to run the query.


Query Response
Query Response Window

This screen serves three purposes:

1.	Monitoring the progress of the query

2.	Displaying the number of documents and words found

3.	Displaying the query tree (if enabled)

Monitoring query progress

For queries with a longer response time, the progress bar shows how much of the time needed to perform the query has already elapsed.

Displaying number of documents and words found

Based on the information typed in on the Query screen, the following is displayed:

Documents found:	The number of different documents (source files) found.

Words found:	The number of occurrences found in all the documents of the words or word combinations being searched for.

Displaying the query tree

If the query tree is enabled, it will appear on the right side of the Query response window. This tree shows the logical structure of the query (see Entering logical operators) and includes tips for locating closely related words.


Viewing Mode Windows
Viewing Mode Window

This screen enables you to select a mode for viewing the results. It has three types of choices:

1.	Viewing only those portions of text which are 7 lines above and below every occurrence of the query text (Keywords).

2.	Viewing the full page for every occurrence of the query text (Full Page).

3.	Viewing occurrences of the query text based on the fields specified on the query screen (for example: Text, Title, Author, Page, Free Text, etc.).

Clicking Cancel returns you to the Query Screen.

Clicking on the desired Viewing mode option opens a screen displaying the query results.


Viewer Windows
Query Results Screen

The query results for the selected viewing option are displayed here. This screen serves several purposes:

Working with the results

Enriching the queries

Saving queries

Enriching the results

Printing the results

Miscellaneous operations

Working with the Query Results

Working with the query results involves effectively utilizing INSIGHT tools for:

Navigating operations (Navigation Menu).

Copying operations (EditMenu).

Visual operations(Window and Zoom Menus).

Navigating Operations

These operations can navigate through the query results and open windows for different portions.

Next

This option enables you to move to the area of text where the next hit word is located. Clicking on Next on the Navigation menu or pressing the Next button (the right arrow) performs the move.

Prev

This option enables you to move back to the previous area of text where the hit word is located. Clicking on Prevtrch on the Navigation menu or pressing the Prev button (the left arrow) performs the move.

NextPage

This option enables you to move to the next page of the query result. Clicking on NextPage h on the Navigation menu or pressing the NextPage button (the double right arrow) performs the move.

PrevPage

This option enables you to move back to the previous page of the query result. Clicking on PrevPageon the Navigation menu or pressing the PrevPage button (the double left arrow) performs the move.

Another

This option enables you to open a window containing the next document where the hit word is located. Clicking on Another on the Navigation menu or pressing the Another button (the two pages symbol) performs the move.


Copying Operations

These operations can copy a selected area of text on the screen to the clipboard for pasting into other Windows applications on your computer.  A selected area can also be cleared.

Copy

This option enables you to select an area of text on the screen and copy it to the clipboard. Clicking on C0opy on the Edit menu or pressing Ctrl+C copies the selected area into the clipboard.

Clear

This option enables you to clear the background for the selected information from the query result.  Clicking on Clear on the Edit menu, pressing Del or clicking on the background itself clears the selected background.

Select All

This option enables you to select the entire area of text on the screen and copy it to the clipboard. Clicking on Select All on the Edit menu or pressing Ctrl+A copies the selected area into the clipboard.


Visual Operations

These include standard Windows operations which you can use for conveniently arranging the windows you have opened and Zoom operations on the query results.

Tile

This option provides an equivalent area on the screen for each of the windows and is implemented by clicking on Tile.

Cascade

This option shows all the open windows on the screen as a cascade and is implemented by clicking on Cascade.

Arrange Icons

This option arranges the icons from windows you have minimized and is implemented by clicking on Arrange Icons .

Close All

This option closes all the open windows in the RETRIEVER module and is implemented by clicking on Close All.

Fit within

This option shows how the query result appears in a full page layout. It is shown in reduced size on the left of the screen. Clicking on the 100% option on the menu or on the 100% button returns the page to its full size.

Zoom selected

This option enlarges the selected portion of the query result and its immediate surroundings to a  size that fills the screen.

Zoom percentages

This option enlarges or reduces this page of the query result according to the percentage option you click on. For returning to 100% page size (the original size), you can click either on the percentage option or on the toolbar button.