Customization Overview

Magnify provides a simple, easy-to-use interface that is very similar to the one used by the Google Search Appliance. Magnify uses an XSLT style sheet to create the interface by which the user interacts. Developers can use this style sheet to customize various elements on the interface. Also, search results can be enhanced to contain more information (such as date or custom snippet content) by configuring fields stored in the index and exposing their values in each search result. The customizations described in the following sections apply when Magnify is configured with a Lucene index.

Any changes made to the Magnify style sheet requires you to restart the application server.

By default, the Magnify XSLT style sheet is located in:

\ibi\WebFOCUS82\config\magnify\locale\locale_stylesheet.xslt

where:

locale

Is the subfolder name for each language Magnify supports to provide localized interfaces. The following languages are available:

• Chinese
• English
• French
• French Canadian
• German
• Japanese
• Mandarin
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish

The \ibi\WebFOCUS82\config\magnify\included_stylesheet.xslt file contains templates for customizing the various components on the Magnify interface and is dynamically included in the Magnify style sheet at run time. Each component can be hidden or displayed and contains customizable attributes, such as color, alignment, and size, as shown in the following example.

• Global Style Variables

  <xsl:variable name="global_font">Arial,sans-serif</xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="global_font_size">1em</xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="global_bg_color">#fff</xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="global_text_color">#000</xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="global_link_color">#00c</xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="global_vlink_color">#551a8b</xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="global_alink_color">#f00</xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="global_co_color">#2f2f2f</xsl:variable>

• Result Page Components

  Search input box:

  

  Search result information:

  

  <xsl:variable name="show_result_page_help_link">0</xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="show_alerts_link">0</xsl:variable> 
  <!-- *** search boxes (size in # of characters) *** --> 
  <xsl:variable name="show_top_search_box">1</xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="show_bottom_search_box">1</xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="search_box_size">32</xsl:variable>

• Result Title and Snippet

  

  <!-- *** result title and snippet *** --> 
  <xsl:variable name="show_res_title">1</xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="res_title_color">#00c</xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="res_title_size">1.35em</xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="res_type_size">.85em</xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="show_res_snippet">1</xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="res_snippet_size">1.05em</xsl:variable>

• Keyword Match

  

  <!-- *** keyword match (in title or snippet) *** --> 
  <xsl:variable name="res_keyword_color"></xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="res_keyword_size"></xsl:variable> 
  <xsl:variable name="res_keyword_format">strong</xsl:variable>

You can expose additional information in the interface to enhance the search results of your Magnify application. To use information stored in the index, the field name and its value must be retrieved and configured in the style sheet. By default, the Magnify style sheet has immediate access to field names and values contained in the XML that Magnify returns. For example,

• HTML_LEFT_OF_SNIPPET
• Any parameter that begins with LINK_, TITLE_, FOC, or IBI
• date
• datetime
• mimetype
• feedtype
• SECURITY_PLUGIN
• url_encoded