DIRECTORY SERVICES

Supporting Soundex searches of a condensed Directory Catalog
Use the "Use Soundex" field in a directory catalog configuration document for a condensed Directory Catalog to control whether the directory catalog supports Soundex lookups. Choose Yes (default) to support Soundex lookups, or No to omit support for Soundex lookups.

Soundex allows IBM® Lotus® Notes® users to use phonetic spellings to search for names. Supporting Soundex lookups increases the size of the directory catalog by about 4 bytes for every entry. Soundex is not effective for finding names in non-Latin characters.

This field is not available in a configuration document for an Extended Directory Catalog, since minimizing the size of an Extended Directory Catalog is not a typical goal.

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