Google Search Appliance Creating the Search Experience - Manual (Page 112)

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Chapter 4
Advanced Customization Topics
Chapter 4
About This Document
This section describes the audience for this document, the organization of the material, and some
additional sources of information.
Audience
This document is for search administrators and webmasters who want to customize the search
interface. To perform most customization tasks, you need privileges to edit search appliance front ends
and eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) stylesheets. For some customizations, you
must also have privileges to edit your web portal and content pages.
This document provides detailed procedures to direct general users in the steps for editing HTML
markup or XSLT code. Some background in HTML, XSLT, and search appliance query parameters is
helpful for understanding the customization examples and replicating them in your environment.
The Customizations and Example Pages
This document uses examples to illustrate customizations. Each customization is described in a
separate section with detailed explanation of the required markup or code. Each example is also
illustrated in the context of example pages based on a fictional fishing fly-tying business.
The following customizations are described and illustrated in this document:
Customization Description Example Page
“Presenting the Search
Interface in an Inline Frame”
on page 115 Present the search and results pages in an inline
frame within a static page. “Inline Frame
Example page”
on page 114
“Creating an HTML Form
Search Box” on page 116 Integrate an HTML-based search box directly into
your web page instead of using the default
search page. “HTML Form
Example Page”
on page 113
“Combining an HTML Form
Search Box with Inline
Results” on page 117 Combine inline frame presentation of the results
page with a custom search box. “HTML Form
Example Page”
on page 113