Basic Walk Settings

Note: This documentation is for an old version of Webinator. The latest documentaion is here.

Basic Walk Settings

This is the central area for configuring a walk. The most commonly used walk related options and their settings are enumerated and may be changed here. Next to each option is a question mark (?) which, if clicked, will take you to help for that option. The options are documented individually later in this manual in section 4.4.

At the bottom of the page is a set of three buttons. Pressing any of the buttons affects all options on the entire page.

Update
This button causes all changes on the form to be saved. No walk is started.
If the rewalk schedule has been changed the new schedule will go into effect immediately.
If categories have been changed the walk database will be updated to reflect the new categories. The search interface will then reflect the new categories.
If single page, page file, or page URL have been changed, the listed individual pages will be fetched into the live search database and made available for searching.
If the word definition is changed, the search index on the live database will be dropped and recreated. Searches may not work while the index is being rebuilt.
GO or Update and GO
The GO button will change to Update and GO after you make a change to any setting on the form. The ultimate behavior for either is the same.
The current settings from the form will be saved as when you hit Update. Then a new walk will be started. The new walk will be performed to a temporary database so that the live search is not disturbed at all by the new walk. Then you will be shown the walk status page where you may monitor the progress of the walk.
Changes to categories or word definitions will not be reflected until the walk finishes.
STOP
When a walk is in progress the GO button will be replaced by the STOP button. This button will terminate the running walk and abandon the work that it has done so far.
Reset
This button reverts all settings on the page to what they were when the page was first loaded.