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Google Search Appliance: Creating the Search Experience Customizing the User Interface 89
For employees, you a want user interface that:
• Offers multiple search options, such as searching secure content and searching within results
• Displays complex result listings that contain a title, a snippet, a date, a link URL, and a cached link
For both customers and employees, you want to offer user interfaces in four languages: English,
Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French. To accomplish all your design goals, you plan to create eight
user interfaces.
For customers, you will create the following user interfaces:
• An English-language user interface for customers in the U.S. and Canada
• A Spanish-language user interface for customers in Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, and the U.S.
• A Brazilian Portuguese-language user interface for customers in Brazil
• A French-language user interface for customers in Quebec, Canada
For employees, you will create the following user interfaces:
• An English-language user interface for employees in the U.S. and Canada
• A Spanish-language user interface for employees in Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, and the U.S.
• A Brazilian Portuguese-language user interface for employees in Brazil
• A French-language user interface for employees in Quebec, Canada
This document describes how you can use Google Search Appliance features to accomplish these types
of user interface customizations. The following table gives an overview of the major sections in this
document.
What Is the Relationship Between a User Interface and a
Front End?
A Google Search Appliance user interface is associated with a single front end. A front end is a
framework that is composed of multiple elements that manage a single search experience. One of the
elements of a front is the format element, which determines how results are displayed to the user, or in
other words, the user interface. The other elements of the front end define what results are available to
present to the user. Each front end can have one user interface.
The search appliance has a default front end, which has a default user interface. You can use the default
user interface without any customization. However, a search appliance can have multiple front ends,
each with its own, customized user interface.
Section Describes
“Getting Started with Customizing
the User Interface” on page 91 How you can customize the user interface using the Page Layout
Helper
“Customizing the User Interface in
the XSLT Stylesheet” on page 100 How you can customize the user interface using the eXtensible
Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) Stylesheet Editor
“Customization Process Overview”
on page 107 What steps you should take to customize the user interface
“User Interface Design Principles”
on page 109 What guidelines you should follow when customizing the user
interface