Got it.  Many thanks, Chad!!

Kim

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 3:16 PM Chad Petrovay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> You can only search a phrase whose word length is shorter then your
> defined max length. For instance, if your maximum length was set to 3 (the
> system default), you could not perform a phrase search for "President of
> the United States". The larger your maximum length, the more rows that need
> inserting into TermSearch - which (theoretically) slows down field update
> times and increases the size of your database.
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 2:48 PM Kimberly Koons <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Ok - very helpful, Chad --  thanks!!
>>
>> So the payoff (or consequences) of defining "maximum word length" is
>> (are)....??
>>
>> K
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 2:41 PM Chad Petrovay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Certain fields in TMS are indexed in the TermSearch table, these include
>>> titles, descriptions, provenance, etc. The full list can be seen by going
>>> to *Maintenance > Database > Maintain Search Terms *in the Objects
>>> module.
>>>
>>> These fields are broken down into a list of keywords - that are not in
>>> your Stop Word list (*Maintenance > Authorities > Other > Stop Word*s)
>>> and have a length greater than a configuration value (
>>> *System.SearchTerm.MinimumLength*).
>>>
>>> When you search for Cat Dog (using AND) the system will look for
>>> entries that have the keyword Cat and the keyword Dog in the TermSearch
>>> table. This search would retrieve a piece titled "The Content Cat and the
>>> Mischievous Dog".  However, if you wanted to search for the phrase  "Cat
>>> Dog" (one word followed by the next word) this requires phrase indexing
>>> (*System.SearchTerm.WordBreaker.Phrases*). If you do not have phrase
>>> indexing configured, TMS will not return any records, even if there is an
>>> object with the title "Behold: the elusive cat dog".
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 2:21 PM Kimberly Koons <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK, I am going to ask the dumb question:  what is "phrase indexing"??
>>>>
>>>> Kim Koons
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:46 AM Chad Petrovay <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> A question for institutions that have phrase indexing turned on in
>>>>> TMS: What have you configured as your maximum word length?
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks ~Chad
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