1.1. WWW Settings

Specify whether you want to connect to the Internet through a proxy server on your local area network. A proxy server acts as a security barrier between your network and the Internet thus protecting confidential information kept within your local area network from being accessed by other people on the Internet.

Carefully fill in both fields with the appropriate proxy server address and port number. This information is typically supplied by your System Administrator or Internet Provider.

Check this box if SSSiter is unable to access the Web without specifying user name and password.

Some authentication schemes (such as, Integrated Windows Authentication supported by Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server, ISA) use your Windows account and password, and do not require any additional information to be entered here. Fill in the User and the Password fields only if you get the error message "The proxy server authentication failed" in the SSSiter reports. The required user name and password are to be typically given to you by your System Administrator or Internet Provider. To prevent unauthorized access to your user name and password, both options will be kept by SSSiter in an encrypted form. In addition, the actual value of the password is not displayed: shown is the star "*" sign in place of any character you type in for the password field.

This value instructs SSSiter how long it should wait (in minutes) to receive the entire contents of a given Web page before proceeding with its search. Typically, Web servers respond quickly and as such, by default, SSSiter is given up to 8 minutes for transferring each document.

This tab contains options used by SSSiter while executing your queries and generating final reports.

Specifies the number of characters SSSiter should skip when it places a quotation into the report before the program can continue quoting the same document. If this option is not specified, (or, is set to zero) SSSiter includes as many quotes from the same document as it finds out. If you wish to see only one quotation per each document, enter a large enough value (e.g. several thousand) in this field. This will prevent the appearance of "duplicates" (i.e. multiple quotations that have been extracted from the same document).

Beginning from version 5.0, SSSiter is capable of translating document contents between a number of languages. The product is shipped with on-line translation components, which allow translating from Chinese into English, English into German, etc. The product translates pages on the fly allowing you to search in and investigate Web sites even if you do not speak the language in which the sites are written. Furthermore, the product checks if new translation components become available on the regular basis (i.e., once a month or when you press the button "Update") thus keeping your copy of the product automatically updated with the latest changes.

To find paragraphs which match your Search Phrase, SSSiter offers a number of different search methods, namely:

1. The "Subject search" method is capable of selecting paragraphs, in which your search phrase might be altered, modified, or even misspelled. This method is especially useful when searching for information you are just getting familiar with. This method accepts natural queries (entering something like "how can I rent a car in Italy" is OK), so it is the most powerful and the convenient one.
   Despite this fact, in a number of cases selecting one of the following Literal Search methods SSSiter also provides you with may be more preferable. For example, when you are looking for occurrences of a particular person's name, geographical location, or/and number or numbers.
   
2. The literal search method "All words in same order ignore case" selects documents containing all of the words in your phrase following each other and separated by one or several spaces or/and line breaks. For example, "Kryloff Technologies" is matched to:
   a) "  Kryloff        Technologies  ",
   b) "KRYLOFF (end of line)
      TECHNOLOGIES", etc., but
   c) not to "Kryloff Technology".
   To match the words "Technology" and "Technologies", use the Subject Search method described above.
3. The literal search method "Entire pattern ignore case" selects documents containing your search phrase as you type it in (including leading and trailing spaces, special characters, etc.). For example, "Kryloff Technologies" gets matched to just "Kryloff Technologies", "KRYLOFF technologies", but not to "KRYLOFF   (two or more spaces or line breaks)   Technologies".
4. The literal search method "All words from the phrase ignore case" allows finding documents that contain just all words in your Search Phrase. You may enter only some part of the words. As an example, the search phrase "Kryl Tech" will be matched to "Kryloff Technologies"; also selected will be any other documents containing, for example, the words "Kryloff" and "Technical", "Kryloff" and "Technology", (anywhere in the text or document title), etc.
5. The literal search method "At least one word ignore case" selects documents containing at least one (any) word you have entered into your search phrase. For example, issuing the query "Kryl Tech" will cause SSSiter to select documents which contain either "Kryloff" or "Technologies", or both as well as "Technology", "Technical", etc.
   
   All methods described above (including the "Subject Search" one) are case insensitive: the patterns "Kryloff", "KRYLOFF" and "kryloff" are considered to be the same. The following four methods make distinction between uppercase and lowercase characters when searching for occurrences of your search terms; the rest of functionality of these methods has been just described above in this section:
   
   
6. The literal search method "All words in the same order match case" makes distinction between capital (uppercase) and small (lowercase) characters. See also: "All words in same order ignore case".
7. The literal search method "Entire pattern match case" selects documents which contain your phrase bodily (as you type it in) without any changes. See also, "Entire pattern ignore case" described above.
8. The literal search method "All words from the phrase match case" is identical to the method "All words from the phrase ignore case" described above except for the fact that it makes distinction between capital and small characters.
9. The literal search method "At least one word match case" is also similar to "At least one word ignore case", but it treats capital and small letters as absolutely different ones and does not match them to each other (even if they represent the same sound in the language of your choice).

Click an item to toggle its check mark. If the box is checked, SSSiter will be asking you to confirm the corresponding action. If the box is cleared, SSSiter will be proceeding without prompting (presuming that you always answer with "Yes").

Another way to suppress a confirmation prompt is to check the box "Do not ask about it in the future" when the prompt appears on screen. The same way you may prevent SSSiter from displaying warning messages and some hints: switching off hints is not recommended, though. Some hints or prompting for confirmation boxes do not have the check box "Do not ask about it in the future": this has been done on purpose to protect critical actions such as deleting the entire contents of query folders, etc.

Contains options instructing SSSiter how to store documents and show final reports.

SSSiter is capable of downloading, scanning, selecting and extracting quotations from documents of many types, namely: HTM/HTML (all types and encodings supported by your version of Windows), plain and Unicode text files, Rich Text files, Adobe Acrobat^®, MS Office^® (MS Word^® documents, Excel^® spreadsheets, and Power Point^® demonstrations), Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and Active Server Page (ASP) scripts. The field Document types lists extensions of documents SSSiter should process. You do not normally have to modify the value of this field unless SSSiter skips some pages it should process.

As an example, consider the following: some pages on the Microsoft Web site have the extension "MSP". Since SSSiter processes only HTM and HTML files, by default, those with the "MSP" extension will be skipped (along with images and other binary files, which are not supposed to contain textual data). To instruct the product process MSP files as well, add the "MSP" extension to the list. After accepting your changes, you'll have to re-run queries addressed to the Microsoft Web site. Press the three-dotted button to restore the original set of file extensions. You may list document extensions in any order: it does not affect the product functionality.

Once SSSiter completes a search, it will automatically load the report into a browser if you check the option Show at once. SSSiter can also supply this action with a media (e.g. .wav file) sound if you enter the sound file name into the corresponding field.

When you are deleting or re-setting a query and this box is checked, SSSiter removes not only the query itself, but also corresponding reports from its Library and Site Maps folders.

The check box "Show balloon help messages" enables or disables the appearance of small pop-up (normally) yellow windows with some hints on them when you position the mouse pointer over a particular element of SSSiter dialogs and screen forms. Regardless of the value of this check box, the product always shows short hint messages at the bottom of its main window.

SSSiter can load reports into either an external (default) browser or a built-in one. When you check the box "Use internal browser", SSSiter will automatically start displaying corresponding reports when you select queries in the Query Folder (right) pane. This option also affects the way SSSiter displays reports when you double-click a completed query using the left mouse button: if the box is checked, corresponding reports are loaded into the internal browser window.

Specifies the target window to load links into. By default, SSSiter builds its reports so, that the browser creates a new window to load each link. By checking this option you may specify that the links should be loaded directly into the SSSiter report window; in this case you can use the browser's Back button to return to the report window, again.

This option takes effect when you click OK in the SSSiter Options dialog. When checked, it instructs SSSiter to replace all search settings in existing incomplete queries in all open folders with those you have specified in the SSSiter Options dialog. If this option is not checked, SSSiter does not perform any replacements when you click OK. In this case the changes you have made will start affecting newly created queries only.

Click the OK button to accept all changes that you have made in the SSSiter Options dialog. By default, the changes will affect all newly created queries. If you check the box "Apply changes to all new queries", the existing incomplete queries (in open query folders) will be adjusted as well; otherwise, the existing queries will remain changed.

Click Cancel or just press the "Esc" button on the keyboard to discard any changes you might have made in the SSSiter Options dialog.

Click Help or just press the "F1" button on the keyboard to receive information on a particular SSSiter option.