How are full-text search hits ranked?
For a single compiled help (.chm) file, results are ranked by the number of hits within each topic (the number of times the search term is found within a topic). For a multiple-title help system, it’s a little more complex. If you have, for example, 5 compiled help files in your help system, the top-ranking hit from each title will be listed, followed by the second-ranking hit for each title, followed by the third, and so on. This process is followed until all the results are returned, or a total of 500 topic titles are listed.
Related Questions
- Im using the porphyrin template provided with ConQuest as part of my substructure but the search seems to be missing hits I know are there: what is going on?
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