3.8. Customising the search interface

It is possible to customise some aspects of the search interface by using Query configuration entry in the Preferences menu.

There are two tabs in the dialog, dealing with the interface itself, and with the parameters used for searching and returning results.

User interface parameters:



Search parameters:



Extra databases:

This panel will let you browse for additional databases that you may want to search. Extra databases are designated by their database directory (ie: /home/someothergui/.recoll/xapiandb, /usr/local/recollglobal/xapiandb).

Once entered, the databases will appear in the All extra databases list, and you can chose which ones you want to use at any moment by tranferring them to/from the Active extra databases list.

Your main database (the one the current configuration indexes to), is always implicitely active. If this is not desirable, you can set up your configuration so that it indexes, for example, an empty directory.