Grouping Sources

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2 total messages Started by Jason Baragry Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:06

#347

Author: Jason Baragry
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:06

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G'Day,

	I was wondering if it is possible to group sources into subjects.
I use XWais and if, for instance, I want to locate a technial report or
journal article on a particular subject I have to choose about 6 different
sources to search through. What I would like to be able to do would be to
group all those sources together and simply chose that source group whenever
I wanted to look for technical reports.

	Is this possible? Has someone done this? Which bits of the source
can I hack to do it?

thanks,

Jason.

Re: Grouping Sources

#348

Author: Rob Harper
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 07:53

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In <1993Jan12.020613.3209@latcs1.lat.oz.au> baragry@amdahl1.lat.oz.au (Jason Baragry) writes:

>G'Day,

>	I was wondering if it is possible to group sources into subjects.
>I use XWais and if, for instance, I want to locate a technial report or
>journal article on a particular subject I have to choose about 6 different
>sources to search through. What I would like to be able to do would be to
>group all those sources together and simply chose that source group whenever
>I wanted to look for technical reports.

>	Is this possible? Has someone done this? Which bits of the source
>can I hack to do it?

Yes it is possible, and very easy to do.
Here are the steps

	1) Click on ADD SOURCE and add the source you want to query
	2) Repeat the procedure until you have all the sources
           you want displayed in the source window.
	3) Now if you search XWAIS will go through all the sources
           at once and give you the merged results.
	4) You can now save all these sources as a QUESTION.
	   For example I have several sources for finding people
	   and places on the network which I saved as a QUESTION
	   called "contacts"
	5) The next time you open XWAIS you then click on the
	   question you have made to highlight it... and then
           click the OPEN button to bring all you selected
	   sources into the sources box.

	That's it.
	
RGDS -=ROB=-
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