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9. User Classes > Configuration > Default Screens

You can define different default settings for each User Class. In each case, select from the drop-down menu or click the radio button. After making your choices, click the Save button.

Define the default screen that opens after a user has logged in.

Choose one of four options:

  • Advanced Search

  • Simple Search

  • Browse

  • Thesaurus

Define the default choice for the Advanced Search screen as: drop-down.

Choose one of two options:

  • All - Smart Search (Wilson's rules-based search)

  • Keyword (only searches citations, including abstracts, but does not search full text)

Define the default choice for the Basic Search screen.

Choose one of two options:

  • Natural Language searching

  • Boolean searching

Define the default choice for the preferred search results sort option.

Choose one of two options:

  • Relevance (sorts by relevancy rankings assigned to each record by the system search rules)

  • Date (sorts all records retrieved by date in a descending order)

Define whether or not Relevancy Rankings are displayed only when records are sorted by rank.

Choose one of two options:

  • Yes (relevancy rankings percentages are displayed only when sorted by rank)

  • No (relevancy rankings are not displayed when sorted by date)

Define if stemming should be turned off for the All-Smart Search and the Author field searches, for each User Class, as the preferred choice.

Note: For all other searches, automatic stemming can be turned off by placing double quote marks around the searched term or phrase.

  • Stemming

  • No Stemming

 

 

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