The Stopwords Module

The Stopwords module manages lists of words to be disregarded in free text searches. The words registered in the Stopwords module are ignored when a free text search is executed in WorkZone Client or Captia Web Client.

Prerequisites for managing stopwords

The prerequisite for gaining access to the Stopwords module is the access code DATAADM.

Click Basic Data > Stopwords to open the module. The Stopwords lists already registered in the module are displayed in the left panel.

Default system stopword lists

The Stopwords module contains by default only one list of stopwords per culture.

Custom stopword lists

To add stopwords you must create a new stopword list specific for your organization and/or culture.

Create a custom stopword list

1. Click Basic Data > Stopwords.
2. Click the empty bottom cell of the Stopword List column.
3. Enter the name of the new stopword list. The cell allows for names of maximum 30 characters.
4. Click in the List Type cell and select Custom from the list.
5. Click Database > Save.
6. The dialog box "You must activate the stopword list in Oracle before the stopwords are used." is displayed. Click OK to continue.

Create stopwords

1. Click Basic Data > Stopwords.
2. Click the Stopword List in which you wish to create stopwords.
3. Click the leftmost cell of the row. The contents of the list is displayed in the right panel.
4. Click in the empty cell of Stopword column in the bottom row.
5. Enter stopword. Maximum 80 characters.
6. Place the cursor in another cell and click Database > Save.