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Start Page

The start page contains information about the selected index, statistics from all your indexes and news from Perceptive Search. The start page is shown when you first start Perceptive Enterprise Search - Local Administration Console.

If the start page is now showing, you can get back to it at any time by selecting View > Start Page

The start page contains the following information:

  1. Welcome Message
    The welcome message contains an overview for new users, giving them the opportunity to learn about the steps involved in getting a search up and running. You can hide/show the welcome message by clicking the or button in the top right of the message.
  2. Index Creation Links
    You can use these links to get quick access to the New Index Wizard; or you can select File > New Index from the menu.
  3. News
    Contains news items retrieved from Perceptive Search.
  4. Active Index
    Contains information about the currently selected indexed, including:
  5. Documents in Active Index
    A pie chart representing the document types that make up the selected index with a list of the document types and their count.
  6. Available Indexes
    The Available Indexes section shows the statistics of the indexes in your catalog, including how long since the index was updated and how many documents it contains.