User guide

smart.finder supports you in the web-based search for resources: records, services, documents, applications or features in a database; with or without spatial reference; time-variant or static.

The focus of smart.finder is on efficient, simple and high-performance searching. This can be done locally or distributed within information infrastructures. smart.finder is not a simple search engine, but combines uniform access to resources with optimal and intelligent result processing.

smart.finder can easily be used by external systems, as a variety of interfaces for the search are offered in combination with a wide range of configuration options of the overall system.

smart.finder is characterized by a high degree of quality. This is expressed in an intuitive usability, high performance and stability as well as good documentation. smart.finder redefines the access to the topic "search" for the user in a simple and intuitive way. For this purpose, the product provides a lightweight web application that focuses on efficient user interactions for searching and using resources.

This smart.finder user manual explains how to use the product in principle. This includes the search behavior, the display of results and the administration of indexing jobs.