Table of Contents Area
HTML and JAVA tabs: Two ways of navigating library.municode.com
The HTML Table of Contents:
The HTML table of contents shows the name of the site and the first level
of documents or folders in the site.
Within the HTML table of contents, not every heading corresponds to a document.
Folder nodes can contain other folders or documents. To see a document, you
must expand the table of contents until you see a document icon
.
For example, click a folder icon
to expand
it and display the folders content. When you expand a branch of the table of
contents, notice how the separator line moves and you see the children (below
the line) of each parent node you click.
To navigate back up in the table of contents, click one of the folder icons above
the separator line.
The Java Table of Contents
The other table of contents option is the Java table of contents. If your
browser supports Java, you can switch to the Java table of contents by clicking
the Java tab.
Click the plus icon 
to expand the headings.
The Java table of contents does not have a separator line like the HTML table
of contents and looks and feels very similar to Windows Explorer ®. You
see the entire table of contents, which helps you to view the information in
context.
Document Viewing Area
The document viewing area takes up the majority of the space on the interface.
This is the area where you view the documents you select from the table
of contents or from the results of a search. To view a document on library.municode.com,
simply navigate the table of contents (it doesn't matter which one you choose,
HTML or JAVA) and click on a document icon or heading. When you do
this, you will see the document you selected appear in the document viewing
area.
You will notice that as you navigate down through the table of contents, the
contents of the document viewing area do not change. Only when you select a
document node, or a folder node that has content, does the content within the
document viewing area change.
At the top right of the browser window area are links that allow you to change
your browser frames, this area is called the Global Navigation area.
You will notice that when you run a search or select a search form from the
drop down list the current frame changes. library.municode.com opens with the
Document link (or frame) enabled so you can view documents on your site. Depending
on what you are doing within the site, these frames change automatically. For
example, selecting a search form from the Choose search form list
changes the Document frame to the "Search Form" frame. Running a search
will open the Results frame.
Navigating in the Document Frame
After selecting a document from a list of search results, you are free to
manually scroll through that document to identify all of its matches. Or, you
could use the tools in the Document frame toolbar to navigate documents and
their matches.
- Sync Contents
expands or collapses the table
of contents as necessary to show where the document is located in the site hierarchy
and to view other documents in a similar context.
- Next Match
or
Prev Match
enables
you to move from one match (highlighted term) to the next.
- Clear Highlights
removes the highlights from
the matches in the current document. To have the highlights reappear, click
the Results tab to return to the search results list and reclick the document
from which you cleared highlights.
- Find Similar
performs a search based on the
document you are viewing. This is similar to applying a filter within the Results
frame except with only one document rather than potentially multiple documents.
Both options allow you to narrow your search by finding similar content.
- Print
sends the document currently being viewed
to your browsers print dialogue,
- Bookmark
provides a way to bookmark the current
page and allows you to revisit it later.
Searching library.municode.com
Searching for content on library.municode.com, basically comprises four steps:
- Running a search
- Viewing the list of search results
- Selecting and viewing a document from the search results list
- Navigating the document you selected
On library.municode.com, there are three different ways that you can run a
search. All searches start by typing what you want to search for into a search
form. In short, a search form is a web page that contains one or more fields
where you can type words/terms on which to search. The easiest and most readily
accessible search form is the Search edit box, located at the top, middle-left
of the site. This search form enables you to do a simple, keyword search on
the sites content.
library.municode.com also comes with two other search forms for your use:
- Advanced Search
- Boolean Search
You can access these search forms using the Choose search form drop down
list located next to the search edit box. Instructions for using these search
functions are provided on the search pages.
Viewing A List of Search Results
After performing any search, the Results frame opens to display a search results
list. The search results list contains all matches (if any) to the specified
search.
The Results frame provides you with information regarding your search. At
the top of the frame you see the term or terms upon which you searched ("Results
for ..."). The Results frame also indicates which "batch" of
results you are currently viewing out of the total number of results found ("1-11
of 11 results"). However, the body of the Results frame contains the list
of results. Notice that the information in this list is arranged in columns.
The following is a description of each column:
- Relevancy indicates the relative weight, or quality, of the
search results. The closer the number is to 100, the more relevant the document
is to your search query.
- Filter contains a checkbox for each corresponding result.
This checkbox enables you to refine your original search by marking documents
that match what you are looking for then rerunning the refined version of your
search by clicking on the "Find Similar" link. The filter searches for similar
documents to the ones that are marked so you can narrow your search based on
specific document content.
- Title lists the title of a document. Click a title in
the search results list to display the corresponding document in the document
veiwing area.
- Location indicates the title of the content collection
in which the corresponding document, or match, is located.
- Type indicates the file type of the corresponding document,
or result (XML, HTML, PDF, etc.).
Clicking a result opens the document in the Document frame. After clicking
a result, if you want to go back to your list of search results, click the Results link
again.
Another option that you can select is the Doc/Results link
from the Global Navigation . The Doc/Results link
horizontally splits the browser window into two frames that enable you to view
the Document and Results frames simultaneously.
Document Excerpts
You can use the Document Excerpts drop-down list box to
alter the amount of surrounding context information displayed for each result.
The context can help you determine whether a document is what you are looking
for. Choose Short , Medium , or Long for
the number of words of context to display on each side of the match.
Saving Searches
Saving searches allows you to reuse common search syntax without having to
type in the search string or remember the required syntax. Saving a
search only saves the query not the results. If a specific search locates
the information you need, saving the search makes it easier to find the same
content the next time you need to search for the information. You can save as
many searches as you want. library.municode.com stores saved searches as part of your
user preferences.
If you want to save your search, type a name for the search in the Save
search as edit box and click Save . The name should
be descriptive and remind you of the purpose of the search.
When you save your first search, a new drop down list appears to the right
of the Choose search form drop down list. You can recall your saved
searches by selecting from the Choose Saved Search drop-down
list.