Back to Home | Admin Console Help | Log Out
 Admin Console Help
 
Admin Console Help

Home

Content Sources

Index

Search
  Search Features
    Front Ends
      Output Format
      KeyMatch
      Related Queries
      Filters
      Remove URLs
      OneBox Modules
    Query Settings
    Document Preview Module
    Result Biasing
    Suggestions
    Dynamic Navigation
    Language Bundles
    User Results
    Expert Search
  Secure Search
  Diagnostics

Reports

GSA Unification

GSAn

Administration

More Information

Search > Search Features > Front Ends

Use the Search > Search Features > Front Ends pages to perform the following tasks:

A front end enables you to change the look and feel of the search and search result pages your users access. You can customize these pages to display your organization's colors, fonts, and design. If you have multiple collections, you can make each front end appear in a different format, and have its own configuration options.

If your license permits you to create mutliple front ends, you can customize the front ends with different looks, changing the look and feel in small ways or in a major way.

Creating a New Front End

To create a new front end (if your license permits more than one):

  1. Click Search > Search Features > Front Ends.
  2. In the Front End Name field, enter a name for the new front end.
    Front end names can be up to 200 characters long and can contain only alphanumeric characters, underscores, and hyphens. A name cannot begin with a hyphen.
  3. Click Create.
  4. Click the Edit link next to the new front end name in the list of front ends.
  5. Make changes to the new front end using the configuration tabs.
  6. Click Test Center to view your changes to the front end.

Editing a Front End

The Edit link next to the default_frontend (or any front end name) gives you access to these configuration tabs:

  • Output Format - add a logo, change fonts, colors, and enable alerts
  • KeyMatch - identify URLs to display at the top of the search results for certain search queries
  • Related Queries - identify user query terms and alternative terms that are displayed as suggestions to the user
  • Filters - restrict search results by domain, language, file type, meta tag values, query expansion policy, or result biasing policy
  • Remove URLs - list URLs to ignore for this front end
  • OneBox Modules - define special-purpose queries that provide access to additional data sources

In the Output Format tab, the Page Layout Helper and the XSLT Stylesheet Editor allow you to do as much or as little as you want to affect the look of your search and search result pages.

To edit a front end:

  1. Click Search > Search Features > Front Ends.
  2. Click the Edit link next to the front end you want to edit.
  3. Make changes to the front end using the configuration tabs.
  4. Click Test Center to view your changes to the front end.

If you modify the XSLT stylesheet in the default language for a front end, any change you make is automatically applied to
other languages of the same front end.

For example, suppose the default language of your front end is English and you change the search button text from Google Search to Find It by editing the XSLT stylesheet. When you save your change, "Find It" overwrites the search button text value in the XSLT for other languages of the same front end.

Deleting a Front End

To delete a front end:

  1. Click Search > Search Features > Front Ends.
  2. Click the Delete link next to the front end you want to delete.
    A confirmation box appears.
  3. Click OK.

For More Information

For detailed information about front ends, see "Managing the Search Experience" in "Creating the Search Experience: Introduction," which is linked to the Google Search Appliance help center.


 
© Google Inc.