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Question 1

What is dtSearch

Answer 1

dtSearch is a licensed software that Relativivity have integrated into the platform.
It can quickly retrieve results in indexes covering over 1TB of data.

dtSearch offers functionality including:

• Proximity
• Stemming
• Fuzzy Searches
• Boolean Operators
• Custom Noise Word Lists
• Basic Search features available in Keyword Searches
• Dictionary Search

Question 2

Attempting to build a dtSearch index the dtSearch Manager or worker agent encounters a network issue. How many times will it attempt to retry to execute the build?

Answer 2

It will execute up to three retry attempts at 30 second intervals.

Question 3

How does dtSearch handle accents?

Answer 3

By default dtSearch indexes with and without the access so searching either way will work. (unless “Create Accessnt Sensitive” field is manually set to NO

Question 4

What does dtSearch Auto-recognition allow you to do?

Answer 4

Provides you with the ability to search for various date formats, e-mail addresses, and credit card number. Can efect permformance and is not activated by default.

Question 5

If you add an additional field or change the auto-recognise or accent settings you must perform which type of dtSearch build?
A)Incremental Build
B)Full Build

Answer 5

If you add an additional field to your index or change the auto-recognize or accent sensitive settings, you must perform a full build.

Question 6

Filtering on fields that contain a lot of items can take a long time for the list to populate. Is there an alternative solution?

Answer 6

For fields that may contain a large number of choices, you can designate a Popup filter instead.

Question 7

You get extraneious results t a search because the word confidential appears in a disclaimer in the footer of most documents. How do you excluce this footer text to make results more relevant?

Answer 7

Using dtSearch index construct a search using the NOT and w/n operators to exlude the disclaimer text.

Question 8

You wish to locate documents that contain the word contract and the word draft within five words of each other. How do you do this?

Answer 8

Using dtSearch enter boolean searc syntaxt contract w/5 draft

or draft w/5 contract. Doesnt matter which way round it goes as it’s symetrical

Question 9

What is fuzzy searching?

Answer 9

Allows you to find words even if they are misspelled. You can use the % symbol. The more %% you use the more loose of fuzzy teh search is.

Question 10

What is the difference between the * and the ? and the = windcard symbols in searching?

Answer 10

• could map to any number of characters. ? maps do just one character. = maps to one numerical character
  e.g.
  appl* could be apples or appleby or application etc
  appl? could be apple.
  =th could be 4th, 5th, 6th etc

Question 11

Why would you use Search term Reports?

Answer 11

STRs:

• identify documents containing specific keywords or terms important to the case
• provide aility to enter multiple terms and generate a report listing the number of hits for each term in the document