One of the most important attributes of an intranet is the ability to contain the organization’s wealth of data needed for daily operation in one single location. However, holding the data in a single place is of no use if the employees who need that data are not able to locate what they require.
Intranet users employ a variety of methods for finding information on a company’s intranet, specifically; information architecture (menus), links (quick links, page links and direct links) and search. This article will focus on the inner workings of search functionality and how to create a more user-centric search through a better understanding of best practices in this area.
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Search is only as good as the metadata
The right answer is in there somewhere. It would be better if a simple intranet page provided just parental leave details directly – a better search experience, and a better reading experience. This is the first topic in a five-part series of intranet mini-projects you can repeatably perform to improve your intranet and employee experience. B Series Intranet Search And Settings 4,9/5 9592votes. IP Camera Finder, R&D by ATZ, is a powerful search tool for local area IP cameras. The user can also enter the Basic Network Settings to set the IP address except using the search software. See below Figure 13. Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, near real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, and geospatial search.
The underpinnings of a search is often the most important element in determining a user’s satisfaction and efficiency with the site’s search functionality. One of the most common complaint we hear from users is “I can’t find anything with the search”. Typically the reason a user is unable to find what they are looking for is tied to the inner workings of the search itself. An intranet’s search functionality uses an algorithm to decide which content best matches the user’s search term (unless the search is hardwired directly to a piece of content). This is often based on how frequently the function finds the search term (or a similar term) within the article or the meta-tags (including taxonomy) that an article is associated with. When creating content, it is critical to consider how a user would search for the content and to create an appropriate title and metadata that reflects the user’s predicted behavior. This will aid in the algorithm’s ability to lead users to the correct article they are seeking.
Expect the user to make a mistake
Typos are a common occurrence when users are typing into a search engine. A robust search engine will anticipate typos and will be able to suggest the correct spelling (as well as lead the user to the expected results). This includes caps (Career=career=CAReeR) as well as misspellings of words (Career=Carer=dareer). Different users will use variations of a search term and expect to reach the same results page. For example, a user who types in “careers” expects to receive the same results as another user who searches with “jobs”. However, sadly this is rarely the case, in modern intranets. As intranet searches uses both metadata as well as a text search of the article the results could vary depending on which of the terms are used in the article itself (even if the metadata includes both terms). As such, it becomes critical for the search engine to take similar terms into account much the same way as a thesaurus would in order for the user to reach the expected results.
Allow ‘Google-Like’ Searches
Most of the employees in an organization are accustom to searching on Google. This means that many are use to using Boolean search operations (and/or/not/and not/near/with/phrase) even if they are not aware that they are using those techniques. However, many intranet sites have not yet added this functionality and as a result are limiting the ability of a user to find what they are looking to without resorting to an advanced search screen. It is imperative that this functionality be added in order to permit users to find the information they seek much easier.
Hardwire common search terms
It is very common for most of the searches on an intranet to be for the same 20 search terms. Through studying the search analytics the common search terms can be uncovered for your organization. Once this is achieved, study the results from each of these common terms and see if the “best” or “most frequently selected” results are the ones, which are being populated for the user. It is likely that by hardwiring the results for common search terms the user experience will improve.
A cautionary note for hardwiring results: there is a need to review the results on a frequent basis and to adjust them over time to reflect new/revised content. The review needs to ensure that users are still receiving the best possible results for their search.
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To install run the setup utility which will check the dependencies, download the application and install the service and a tray helper app that discovers and monitors Agent DVR network connections.
Agent for Windows runs on Windows 7 SP1+. Requires the .net framework v4.7+.
To run on Windows Server you will need to enable Windows Media Foundation. For server 2012, install that from here.
If you need to install Agent on a PC without an internet connection you can download the application files manually here: 32 bit, 64 bit
- Download and install the dotnet core runtime for Mac OS
- Install homebrew: https://brew.sh/
- Open a terminal and run:
brew install ffmpeg - Run
dotnet Agent.dllin a terminal window in the Agent folder. - Open a web browser at http://localhost:8090 to start configuring Agent. If port 8090 isn't working check the terminal output for the port Agent is running on.
Agent for Linux has been tested on Ubuntu 18.04, 19.10, Debian 10 and Linux Mint 19.3. Other distributions may require additional dependencies. Use the docker option if you have problems installing.
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Dependencies:
- Agent currently uses the .Net core 3.1 runtime which can be installed by running:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y aspnetcore-runtime-3.1 - More information (you may need to add package references): https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/3.1
You also need to install FFmpeg v4.x - one way of getting this via the terminal in Linux is:
sudo apt-get updatesudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-4ORsudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4for Xenial and Focalsudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install -y ffmpeg
Important: Don't use the default ffmpeg package for your distro as it doesn't include specific libraries that Agent needs
Other libraries Agent may need depending on your Linux distro:
sudo apt-get install -y libtbb-dev libc6-dev gss-ntlmssp
For Debian 10 (and possibly other distros):
sudo wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libj/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo8_1.5.2-0ubuntu5.18.04.4_amd64.debsudo wget http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libj/libjpeg8-empty/libjpeg8_8c-2ubuntu8_amd64.debsudo apt install multiarch-supportsudo dpkg -i libjpeg-turbo8_1.5.2-0ubuntu5.18.04.4_amd64.debsudo dpkg -i libjpeg8_8c-2ubuntu8_amd64.deb
For VLC support (optional):
sudo apt-get install -y libvlc-dev vlc libx11-dev
Download Agent:
- Unzip the Agent DVR files, open a terminal and run:
dotnet Agent.dllin the Agent folder. - Open a web browser at http://localhost:8090 to start configuring Agent. If port 8090 isn't working check the terminal output for the port Agent is running on.
A Docker image of Agent DVR will install Agent DVR on a virtual Linux image on any supported operating system. Please see the docker file for options.
Important: The docker version of Agent includes a TURN server to work around port access limitations on Docker. If Docker isn't running in Host mode (which is only available on linux hosts) then you will need to access the UI of Agent by http://IPADDRESS:8090 instead of http://localhost:8090 (where IPADDRESS is the LAN IP address of your host computer).
To install Agent under docker you can call (for example):
docker run -it -p 8090:8090 -p 3478:3478/udp -p 50000-50010:50000-50010/udp --name agentdvr doitandbedone/ispyagentdvr:latestTo run Agent if it's already installed:
docker start agentdvr
If you have downloaded Agent DVR to a VPS or a PC with no graphical UI you can setup Agent for remote access by calling 'Agent register' on Windows or 'dotnet Agent.dll register' on OSX or Linux. This will give you a claim code you can use to access Agent remotely.
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iSpy is our original open source video surveillance project for Windows. iSpy runs on Windows 7 SP1 and above. iSpy requires the .net framework v4.5+. To run on windows server 2012 you will need to install media foundation.
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Click to download the Windows iSpy installer. We recommend Agent DVR for new installations.
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