
A "Build settings" tab offers an advanced options, that can be selected for generating your index. The most important option on this tab is the path to your "search index file", but also the "words separators" or "exclude words" definition can be useful in many situations.

Description of the settings
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Index file
This field defines a path to your resulting index file. The filename is predefined automatically each time you select a different search template, but you can always override the definition in this field. -
Index file encoding
The index file can be saved in a various encodings - ANSI (system default), UTF-8, Unicode (LittleEndian) and Unicode (BigEndian). Select the same encoding as for your source files, or select an "utf-8" encoding, that is the default for supplied search templates. Write preamble option specifies, if utf-8 and unicode initial bytes will be stored in the resulting index file. -
Escape html entities within the topic titles in index file
When a components, that do not support html entities (for example a SELECT/OPTION element), are used for your search results list, check this option. -
Word separators
Definition of a search terms (words) separators. All the words and terms separated by these characters, will be included in your resulting search index. A carriage-return and a tab characters are handled automatically. If you leave this field blank, a default separators table is used. -
Extra word separators
When creating a search index for files, that use a double-byte based encoding, it is suitable to define an additional (double-byte) characters, that will be handled as a separators. This is the case of "Traditional Chinese", "Simplified Chinese", "Japanese", and other Asian or Arabian encodings. -
Exclude words
Here you can define a table of words, that will be excluded from the search index. Each word has to be listed on a separate row. The phrases (terms with separators) are not supported. -
Open site main file automatically after successful build
When this option is checked, a main file of your site will be opened automatically when the index generating process is completed. -
Open a template main file instead of site main file
This option causes opening a search page (so called "template main file") for previewing, instead of the main file of your site.