Interfaces

Introduction

The Funnelback user interface is normally a web page that allows the user to enter a query, and view the results.

The user interface relies on several components working together:

are the templates for generating the query form and result pages.

is the end point that handles web requests and the generation of web pages.

is the query processor that accepts a query, searches the index and returns the results.

To access the search service use the /s prefixed URLs:

/s/search.html for the HTML results page.
/s/search.xml for the XML results page.
/s/search.json for the JSON results page.
/s/search.classic for an XML results page that emulates the XML format of the Classic UI.

An RSS endpoint is also provided via a custom template that returns results as RSS using the html-endpoint.

The specific presentation for search results is defined in the .ftl file, which uses the FreeMarker file format.

Please read the Search templates section for more information.