Upon startup, the Client prompts for the ADDRESS of the Server. Enter the Host name (or IP address) of the IIR Search Server. If left blank, the Host name defaults to the name of the machine running the Client.

If the IIR Client is started without an initial Search you must choose a Search either from the Search menu or from the Searches on the search toolbar. With a Search selected the program will open a new window for the IIR-ID Table. Each window represents one IIR-ID Table, thus if multiple searches are defined on the one IIR-ID Table it will not open a new window. However, if a Search is selected which is not defined on any of the currently open IIR-ID Tables a new window will be opened.

With a window open and a Search selected you will be prompted to input the required parameters for the Search. You can press

Enter

or click the

Search

button to perform a search. The data will be loaded and sorted by score. Select the

STOP

button, it will cause all current searches being loaded to stop.

If you wish to input values from an existing search simply select the field either before selecting the

Search

button (or menu) or whilst the search panel is displayed.

To zoom view a record, double-click the

record

. Right-click the

record

to bring up a pop-up menu with various options of that record.

You can dynamically resize or reposition any of the columns in the table view simply by either "grabbing" a column header and repositioning it or dragging the border of the header in order to resize it. Furthermore there is a menu option under

Layout

Define Layout

which enables you to configure which columns are visible.

Under

File

there is the option to

Save

an output file. There is also the option to

Zoom All records

or

Dismiss All zooms

.

There is a scrapbook that enables copying any relevant records for later perusal. You can launch searches from these records in a similar fashion as from the main window.

This client’s INI file is created/updated whenever this client shuts down.