Google Search Appliance Creating the Search Experience - Manual (Page 53)

Google Search Appliance: Creating the Search Experience Best Practices 53
Before configuring people search, create a people search source collection. A people search source
collection is a segment of the search index that contains profile information. The source collection must
contain one document for each person. You can create a people search source collection by using the
Crawl and Index > Collections page in the Admin Console. For information about creating a collection,
click Help Center > Crawl and Index > Collections.
Configuring People Search
To configure people search:
1. Click Social Connect > Expert Search and select the People Search tab.
2. Select a collection for people search from the Source Collection pull-down menu.
3. To change the number of profiles that appear in the people search sidebar, enter a number in the
Maximum Results box.
4. To change the title of the people search results sidebar element, enter text in the Title box.
5. To change the size of the people search sidebar element, enter the number of pixels in the Sidebar
Height box.
6. To specify a URL for profile images, enter it in the Image Source URL box.
7. To make the profile image a link, enter a URL in the Image Link URL box.
8. To change the scale of the profile image, enter the number of pixels in the Image Height and
Image Width boxes.
9. To change the sort order of the people search results, enter one or more attribute substitution
patterns in the Sort Fields box.
10. Specify a row of information in each people search profile:
a. To specify a label for the display value, enter a text string in the Label box. To specify
formatting of the label, enter HTML and/or XSL tags.
b. To specify the content of a people search results row, enter one or more attribute substitution
patterns in the Display Value box. To specify formatting of the attribute value, enter HTML
and/or XSL tags.
c. To make the display value a link, enter a URL in the Link URL box.
11. To specify another row, go to step 7.
You can specify a maximum of 16 rows.
12. Click Save.
For complete information about configuring people search, click Help Center > Social Connect >
People Search in the Admin Console.
Showing People Search Results in a Front End
After you configure people search, show the people search results sidebar element in a front end.
To show the people search sidebar element in a front end:
1. Click Serving > Front Ends and click Edit for a particular front end.
2. In the Page Layout Helper box on the Output Format tab, select the Search Results section.