Testing the Index: Standard Queries

You can initiate a search as soon as indexing begins, but will not be able to search your complete search collection until both crawling and indexing complete.

Once indexing completes, you can perform a search against your entire search collection by clicking Search under the search box that appears under the Test with project label in the Watson Explorer Engine administration tool's left-hand navigation bar. By default, your search collection will be tested using the default Watson Explorer Engine project, query-meta.

After clicking Search, a new window opens, displaying a screen with the title and synopsis for the first 10 files out of a total of 43, the latter being the total number of files that are included in the metadata-example tutorial directory.

You can also display Watson Explorer Engine search results with the Watson Explorer Engine's debugging mode enabled. Debugging mode can be toggled by clicking the turn debugging on/off link.

Tip: Watson Explorer Engine's debugging mode is automatically available to Watson Explorer Engine users that have the Administrator Global Access permission. This feature is a convenience for development purposes, and can be disabled or enabled by clicking the turn debugging on/off link at the top of any search page. Users without the Administrator Global Access permission will not see the turn debugging on/off link when using Watson Explorer Engine.

To verify that searching works correctly, perform a search for the word stop, which only shows the four results that match this query. (You can see the total number of results retrieved at the right side of the header above your search results.) Debugging will automatically be disabled.

To proceed to the next section of this tutorial, click Searching Metadata Content.