Serving > Front Ends

You use the Serving > Front Ends pages 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.

When entering data in Front Ends, note that URLs are case sensitive. If you want case-insensitive URLs, use the operator regexpIgnoreCase.

To look at the default search and search result pages, click the Test Center link. A new browser window opens and displays the default front end, which has the search appliance logo, a search box, a Search button, and Advanced Search and Search Tips links. You can use this default front end if you like, or make changes to it.

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

• Output Format - add a logo, change fonts, colors, and so on
• KeyMatch - force results to display during selected word and phrase matches
• 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, or query expansion 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.

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

Note: You are not required to display "Powered by Google" unless you want to.

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

1. Click Serving and then Front Ends.
2. In the Front End Name text box, enter a name for the new front end. Front end names can be up to 200 characters long and can contain only alphanumerics, underscores, and dashes. A name cannot begin with a dash.
3. Click the Create New Front End button.
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. Use the Test Center link to view your changes to the front end.

To edit any front end:

1. Click Serving and then click 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. Use the Test Center link to view your changes to the front end.