WWW Based Search Engine

This search is presented as a series of HTML pages. The first page has a text field for entering the search string, and also has a scrolled list of all of the master parts and their descriptions. Users can select a part using either the search or the list. If the user enters a search string, the next page lists all of the matching families, and asks the user to choose one.

After a family has been chosen through either method, the next page gives the information about the part. At the top of the page is the comment section from the part table. Following that is a picture of the part if one is available. Finally, a text field is presented for each of the variables, with the names in one column and the fields in another. The user is asked to enter their search strings in the appropriate text fields.

The next page presents all of the matching parts. The format is similar to the previous screen, with the text fields replaced by the values of the variables. A checkbox is presented above each matched part. The user selects which parts to look for, and submits the form. Some parts have related parts in other families. If the person who wrote the table included the names of corresponding parts, for example, the matching nut included in the entry for each of the MIL circular connectors, a hyperlink is included that calls the other search script to see if the matching part exists, and generate it if necessary.

The next screen will show which parts exist on the system, and which don't. The ones that do will have the appropriate CADDS activate part command. The ones that don't will have a button that will allow the user to generate the part. If the user does attempt to generate a part, one more page will appear giving the results of the attempt, with the activate part command if successful.

Last Modified: Wed Aug 28 14:41:29 EDT 1996