Changeset 11040 for trunk/gli/help/en

Timestamp:

2006-01-16T14:55:52+13:00 (18 years ago)

Author:

mdewsnip

Message:

Finished the updates to the help text that Katherine did most of on Friday. French/Spanish/Russian translations of new strings still to come.

File:

• trunk/gli/help/en/help.xml (modified) (5 diffs)

trunk/gli/help/en/help.xml

@@ -749 +749 @@
 Here the values provided during collection creation can be modified.
 <Break/>
-At the top of the page is an instruction box, which appears for each of the
-different sections.  It contains a brief list of instructions to remind you
-what functionality is available.
-<Break/>
 First are the contact emails of the collection's creator and maintainer.  
 The following field allows you to change the collection title. The folder that the collection is stored in is shown next, but this cannot be edited.
@@ -834 +830 @@
       </Contents>
       <Anchor name="simple">Simple Instructions:</Anchor>
-When you enter the Search Types view, first check "Enable Advanced
-Searches", which activates the other controls.  This migrates the collection to
-Greenstone 2.4 format, which supports fielded searching, and means that (a)
-the index design is different (explained in the <Reference target="searchindexes">Search Indexes</Reference> section),
-(b) there are more text fragments to translate (see <Reference target="translatetext">Translation</Reference>), and (c) the collection will not be usable under older Greenstone
-installations.  If you later uncheck this field, most of your collection will
-be migrated back to Greenstone 2.39.  However the Librarian Interface cannot
-convert the new index specifications into older ones, so you will have to
-re-enter them manually.
-<Break/>
-To add a search type, select it from the "Search Types" list and click "Add Search Type".  Each type can only appear in the list once.
+When you enter the Search Types view, first check "Enable Advanced Searches", which activates the other controls. This changes the collection to use an indexing mechanism that allows fielded searching. Index specification is slightly different in this mode. (When switching between standard and advanced searching, the GLI does its best to convert the index specification, but may not get it completely right.)
+<Break/>
+To add a search type, select it from the "Search Types" list and click "Add Search Type".  Each type can only appear in the list once. The first search type will be the default, and will appear on the search page of the built collection. Any others will be selectable from the preferences page.
 <Break/>
 To remove a search type, select it from the "Currently Assigned Search Types"
 list and click "Remove Search Type".  The list must contain at least
 one search type.
-<Break/>
-To change to order of a search type, select it from the list and click "Move
-Up" or "Move Down". The first one will be the default.
     </Section>
     <Section name="searchindexes">
@@ -886 +871 @@
 "Remove Index".
 <Break/>
+To create an index covering text and all metadata, click "Add All".
+<Break/>
 The default index, the one used on the collection's search page, is tagged with
 "[Default Index]" in the "Assigned Indexes" list.  To set it, select an index
 from the list and click "Set Default".
 <Break/>
-If advanced searching is enabled (via the Search Types view), the index controls are different.  Each index
-is based on just one data source.  There is a new pseudo-data source "allfields" which provides searching across all specified indexes at once.  Levels are not
+If advanced searching is enabled (via the Search Types view), the index controls are different.  There is a new pseudo-data source "allfields" which provides searching across all specified indexes at once.  Levels are not
 assigned to a specific index, but apply across all indexes: thus indexes and
-levels are added separately.  Indexes are removed in the same way as above, but
-the default index can no longer be set -- it is simply the
-first index assigned.
-<Break/>
-To create indexes on all sources, click the "Add All" button. The name of each index will default to the source name. To change the name, select an index, change its details, and click "Replace Index".
+levels are added separately. "Add All" creates a separate index for each metadata field in this mode.
+<Break/>
+The name of each index will default to the source name. To change the name, select an index, change its details, and click "Replace Index".
     </Section>
     <Section name="partitionindexes">
@@ -1358 +1342 @@
     </Section>
     <Section name="exportingcollections">
-      <Title>Exporting Collections to CD-ROM</Title>
+      <Title>Exporting Collections to CD/DVD</Title>
       
 This section describes how to export collections to a self-installing 
-Greenstone CD-ROM. 
+Greenstone CD/DVD.
       <Contents>
         <ContentsGroup linkto="simple">
@@ -1371 +1355 @@
       <Anchor name="simple">Simple Instructions:</Anchor>
 Greenstone can export one or more collections to a self-installing 
-CD-ROM for Windows. To do so, Greenstone's "Export to CD-ROM" package 
+CD/DVD for Windows. To do so, Greenstone's "Export to CD-ROM" package 
 must be installed. This is not included by default, so you may need to 
 modify your installation to include it.
 <Break/>
-To export a collection, open the "File" menu and choose "Export to 
-CD-ROM". A list of Greenstone collections appears; click on any one to 
+To export a collection, open the "File" menu and choose "Write CD/DVD Image". A list of Greenstone collections appears; click on any one to 
 see its description. Tick the check boxes of the collections to export. 
-You can enter the CD-ROM's name in the box: this is what will appear in 
-the Start menu when the CD-ROM has been installed. Then click "Export". 
+You can enter the CD/DVD's name in the box: this is what will appear in 
+the Start menu when the CD/DVD has been installed. Then click "Export". 
 The process involves copying many files and may take a few minutes.
 <Break/>
 Upon completion, Greenstone will show the name of a folder containing 
-the exported collections. Use a CD writer to copy its contents to a 
-blank CD-ROM.
+the exported collections. Use a CD/DVD writer to copy its contents to a 
+blank CD/DVD.
     </Section>
   </Section>