SNOB - A SNOMED Browser

Settings

Advanced

These are advanced settings. Only change these settings when you know what you are doing! Although you can always press the Reset button to restore the default settings, or throw away your setup.xml file in SNOB's home directory.

Default Data Directory

Here you can enter the name for the directory that SNOB should use to store its databases and other files. Default this is a sub-directory data in SNOB's home directory.

Default Cache Directory

Here you can enter the name for the directory that SNOB should use to store local copies of files that are downloaded from the internet and referenced in decorations linked to concepts. Default this is a sub-directory cache in SNOB's home directory.

Separating characters for indexing process

These are the characters that SNOB uses to extract the index terms from the descriptions. The index terms are used to create the search index and to retrieve concepts during a search.

Treat numerical digits as separating characters (i.e. ignore digits)

When this option is checked, SNOB treats numerical digits as separating characters during indexing and searching.

Only index active concepts, ignore retired concepts

When this option is checked, SNOB only indexes active concepts (i.e. concepts with status Current (0), Limited (6), or pending move (11)).

Stopwords

During indexing SNOB uses a list of stopwords, which are ignored and thus not added to the search index. Usually, these are words like and, the, etcetera. Here you can specify the file name of the stopwords file.

Seconds to wait before starting search

When you have checked the automagically search option, SNOB waits a user-defined number of seconds before actually starting the search process (default 1 second). When you are a slow typist, consider increasing this number.

Your official namespace identifier

If you have an official namespace identifier, you can enter it here. This identifier will then be used when you add a description or subset.