QuickFinder Retriever quick start.

NOTE! Please read the section on changes at the bottom of this document! Also read the manual, QFR.HTM.

Setup:
1. Copy *.html into sys:qfsearch\templates\qfr
2. Put the executable qfr.exe into a suitable directory
3. Launch it and go into file/settings and enter:
 address = address of quickfinder server, ie search.acme.com or 10.0.0.1
port = port to use, ie 80 or 443
Search string = qfsearch/SearchServlet?site=search.acme.com&theme=qfr&template=PlainTemplate.html&numhits=999&encoding=ISO-8859-1 (change site= to your site name)
Secure= check to use SSL/TLS
The three igones=Check those is using a self signed cert

These values are stored in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Pedago\QFR. Alternatively, you can specify an INI-file at startup with the -f parameter. Ie QFR -fQFR.INI.

On the QF server administrator go into the site and select "Security", enter:
- Contexts to search for users
- "Check authorization by directory:" yes
- "Auto-logout time (minutes):" 30

Create a file system index as:
Server path:*  VOL1:Myfiles or such
Corresponding URL prefix: = Mapped drive to above path, ie O:\
Authorization checking: = by Result 

QFR is short for Quick Finder Retriever which is a play on "Beagle"

Use:
If you set up your index to require login, then login (file/login)
Then just enter search words and hit enter. Double clinking on the title of a hit should launch that doc through its association.
To do a filename-search just enter a filename or part thereof and leave content based blank.

Tip:
Set up a noncritical user for testing. That way you can test with the cleartext port.
Authentication makes searches slower. If you have public documents, then consider creating an index visible to all.

Template tips:
You can change the date format by changing $$DateTime to $$DateTime[yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss] for example

Configuration:
Several aspects can be set through the registry or through an ini-file.

[List]
Columns=2
Column0=0
Column1=1
Heading0=Columnname1
Heading1=Volumnname2
HeadingWidth0=50
HeadingWidth1=70

All are pretty self-descriptive, apart from Column0=0, the value here is one of:

0 - title
1 - relevance
2 - filename
3 - description
4 - date
5 - format
6 - link
7 - author

Column 6 is mandatory. You need to have it somewhere if you want to be able to launch the file from QFR.

Thus:
Columns=2
Column0=0
Column1=7

Will produce a list with just title and author

Starrup options:
-f read ini file, ie qfr.exe -fC:\data\qfr.ini
-l enable logging. Log is qfr.log in the current directory.

History:
2005-12-20 0.1	Initial test release
2006-04-11 0.2	Cleaned up code. Added infotip
2006-04-11 0.3	Can specify an ini-file instead of the registry. Ie QFR -fQFR.INI
		Can enter up to 5 indices to search. Default is all indices
2006-04-11 0.4	Shows number of hits in the lower righthand corner
		Can select based on dates
2006-04-12 0.5	Click on column heading to sort column
		Index checkboxes are initially disabled
		Can use Enter to walk through items in left pane
2006-04-13 0.6	More intelligent error handling. Note that the templates QFR uses have moved. They are now under a subdirectory under the templates directory. They are called up by the theme= operator in the search base.

2006-07-28 0.7	Added a context menu for copying and deleting files.

2006-08-21 1.0	Release

2006-10-04 1.1	Changed the listview to fullrowselect
		Can specify descriptive names for indexes and not just index name. (IndexName0..9)
		Can specify what columns are shown.
		Will remember username (in HKCU) after a successful login.
		Will show a launch failure in the lower left corner
		Logging now active if enabled.




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