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SRS Sessions
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You can do your work in SRS using either temporary or permanent
sessions.
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Permanent Session: If you want to return to your session from time to time,
if you think you may need to move work from one session to another, if
you want a record of all your sessions in one place and the ability to
recall any of your previous sessions or begin new sessions, permanent sessions
are the way to go.
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Temporary Session: Use temporary sessions for simple lookups, for example,
looking up something once in a while or to run an occasional Blast search.
You will learn about both types of sessions in this chapter including:
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How to begin or return to a session.
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Benefits of using either session type.
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Additional features made available to the permanent session users.
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Making temporary session data available in other sessions.
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Connecting temporary sessions to permanent sessions.
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All the queries you do and views you create are stored in
the session history and hence are available to use again. If you have accessed
SRS with the permanent sessions option, all your work will be available
when you return to that session. If you are using temporary sessions your
work may still be available. Making a bookmark with the browser allows
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Starting
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You begin working with SRS in the "Start" page. See figure
1.
FIGURE 1. The "Start" page.
There are four links on the "Start" page, they are:
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Start
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Begin a new temporary session.
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Permanent Session
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Begin or return to a permanent session.
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Databanks
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Check the status of databanks available on your SRS server.
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Information
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Online documentation such as the HTML and PDF version of this manual. Other
online documentation includes the Administrators manual, Developers manual,
Classes and Commands quick references, the context sensitive help, and
the SRS FAQ's databank.
Start a Permanent Session
To begin or return to a permanent session:
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Click the "Permanent Session" link.
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Complete the login information.
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The web browser will prompt you to give a user name and password. You need
to ask the SRS administrator for these because they may not be the same
as your system account ID and password.
FIGURE 2. SRS user account access.
Note: Dialogs shown throughout this chapter are generated in the Win32
version of IE5. The dialog you see may look different, it depends on your
system and browser.
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Click "OK".
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This will bring up the "Session Manager" page. From here you can either
continue working with the most recently used session, switch to another
session, or begin a new session. These options will be explained in the
"Permanent Sessions" section below.
Skip ahead in this chapter to section 2, "Permanent Sessions" if you are
following along on-screen and would like to continue. Otherwise read on
to find out how to begin a temporary session.
Starting a Temporary Session
To begin a temporary session from the "Start" page:
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Click the "Start" link.
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This takes you to the "Top" page where you can immediately begin working
with SRS.
Note: You can also begin a new temporary session by clicking the "Databanks"
link. This will start a new temporary session in the "Databank Information
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To continue working with temporary sessions skip-ahead now to section
3, "Temporary Sessions."
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