Set User Options
You can set a number of user options in PlanetPress Search. With the exception of two user options, Use default profile (in Program startup options) and Database access for new profiles (in Search options), all user options apply to the currently loaded search profile and are saved with it. Each time you load a search profile, the user options settings adjust to reflect those of the newly loaded profile.
Note that if the file containing the search profile is read-only, you cannot save any of the modifications you make to the user options settings. In this case, any changes you make to the user options settings are available only until you load a different profile or exit PlanetPress Search. It is common to make search profiles read-only in a network installation. See Database Considerations in a Network Installation.
Here are the user options available in this dialog:
Program startup options tab
- Select document: Select the document that appears in the Select document box in the Search Configuration area of the PlanetPress Search Program window by default when PlanetPress Search loads this search profile. Select None if you do not want PlanetPress Search to display any document when it loads this search profile. This option applies only to the currently loaded search profile.
- Filter date: Select the date filter that appears by default when PlanetPress Search loads this search profile. The date filter appears in the Date boxes in the Search Configuration area of the PlanetPress Search Program window, and constrains the search to PDFs created during the specified time period. Select None to include all PDFs.
- Use default profile: Select to specify a search profile to load on startup. Use either the edit box or Browse button that appear to specify the search profile. Clear to load the last used search profile on startup. If you have never created a search profile (for example, if this is the first time you are starting PlanetPress Search), PlanetPress Search loads the default search profile, PSearch4.prf, located in the PlanetPress Search program folder.
Printing options tab
- Printer to use: Select the printer to use when you print from PlanetPress Search, with this search profile loaded.
Search options tab
- Multi-page mode: Select to set the total number of pages when generating a PDF with the search result when you view, print, or save that result. Use the spin box to set the number of pages. For example, consider that you have Multi-page mode selected and set to 2, and you print a search result that appears on page 15 of the PDF. The printed result consists of two pages: page 15 and 16 of the PDF. This setting applies to the currently loaded search profile.
- Open PDF after creation: Select to have PlanetPress Search automatically open a PDF that it creates from search results. This setting applies to the currently loaded search profile.
- Database access for new profiles
- Use Windows NT integrated security: Select to use the same user name and password on the SQL database as you use to log on to the computer on which you are running PlanetPress Search. You use this option when you create a new search profile for an SQL Server database. PlanetPress Search requires this information to construct the connection string for the database. It saves the connection string in the DatabaseDirectory of the search profile.
- Logon with User ID/Password: Select to specify the user name and password to use with the database, in the User ID and Password boxes. You use this option when you create a new search profile for an SQL Server database. PlanetPress Search requires this information to construct the connection string for the database. It saves the connection string in the DatabaseDirectory of the search profile, encrypting the password before saving it. The value that appears by default in the edit box for this option is the last one saved to a profile.
Database options tab
This tab sets the options for creating, rebuilding, and refreshing the database associated with this search profile. Note that if the search profile has its ReadOnly entry set to 1 (as for example in a network installation), these options are not available in the User Options dialog box.
- Connection timeout: Adjust to set the number of seconds PlanetPress Search waits for a response from the database before reporting a connection failure.
- Refresh databases: Select the frequency of automatic database refreshes for the database associated with this search profile. Each time PlanetPress Search loads a search profile, it can automatically refresh the database associated with that search profile. Select Never to prevent a database refresh when PlanetPress Search loads this search profile. Select Every time to refresh the database every time you load this search profile. Select Once a day to limit the database refresh to once every 24 hours (for example, if you load this search profile 6 times in a 24 hour period, PlanetPress Search only refreshes the database associated with it once during that period). Select Every time to refresh the database every time you load this search profile.
- Enforce global table creation: Select this option if you are using an SQL database.
- Escape strings: Select this option if you are using a MySQL database.
To restore default user options settings:
From the User Options didalog, click on Reset All. This will reset the user options for the currently loaded search profile.