Customising Funnelback
Customising Funnelback allows you to provide a better search experience for your users. This page gives an overview of some of the options available.
Administration interface customisation options
Funnelback's administration interface provides core customisation options for the most common ongoing refinement tasks required for a search service.
Best bets
Specify best bets for key queries, to ensure users see the results you want them to.
Synonyms
Control how some queries are interpreted to match up with your organisation's terminology.
Curator
Customisation of result pages for specific queries.
Classic admin UI customisation options
Funnelback's classic Admin UI provides additional customisation options not yet available within the newer administration interface.
Search forms
Design result pages to match your required look-and-feel.
Contextual navigation
Enable clustering of results for better navigation of available information.
Faceted navigation
Target your searches based on pre-existing structure within your information.
Auto-completion
Enable as-you-type automatic query completion to suggest relevant queries or display additional data.
Quick links
Display relevant links for top level domain results.
File editing
Details on how to edit configuration files for customisation.
XML documents
How to index XML documents.
Document filters
Write filters in Groovy to transform data.
Sorting results
Change the sort order of results.
Web resources folder
Serve web static resources from the profile folders of a collection.
Result collapsing
Collapse similar results into one.
Search session and history
Record search & click history, use a results shopping basket.
Previewing and publishing
Changes to some Funnelback customisations, in particular search templates are always made in a preview area to allow you to view your changes before publishing them for external users.
Previewing changes
Details on how to preview changes to search customisations.
Publishing changes
Details on how to publish changed customisations.
Advanced customisation options
The following customisation options involve more advanced / technical configuration, allowing for greater flexibility.
Custom summaries
Create custom summaries.
XSLT processing
Process XML results.
Noindex parameter
Use a regular expression to specify content to ignore.
Spelling suggestions
Change the default configuration of the spelling suggestion system.
Query blending
Generate and run variant queries and blend the results into a single result set.
Stop words
Remove common words such as 'and' and 'the' from queries.
Word stemming
Search for word variants based on a common word stem.
Event search
Specific presentation customisation for searching events.
Presenting images
Tools for assisting in the presentation of images.
Recommendations
Integrate recommended items into your web pages.
Metadata customisation
Document metadata
Learn about document metadata.
External metadata
Tag content with metadata without modifying the documents.