Building a Title with a Search Index

If you include full-text searching in your title, you can build the title with the search index after you've built and tested the different components of your title. The search index allows you to perform full-text searches across all topics in the title. (See “Adding Browse and Search Buttons,” in Chapter 3, “Creating Topics,” for information on how to add full-text search capability to Viewer.)

The search index can be quite large. The index for any given title usually equals approximately 70% of the size of the title file. For example, if your title file (TITLE.MVB) takes 10 megabytes of disk space, you should assume that the search index for this title (TITLE.IND) needs an additional 7 megabytes. Make sure you have plenty of disk space before you build an index as the build process will fail if there's not enough disk space available.

Building a title and its associated search index involves the following steps:

Copying the GENERIC.MAK into your project directory under the name MAKEFILE

Creating the stop word file (TITLE.STP)

Creating the field file (TITLE.FLD)

Creating the BAG.INI file and inserting a reference in the [BAGGAGE] section of the project file (TITLE.MVP)

Building the title and index