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Creating a Specific Search Interface |
Ultraseek allows MIT web publishers to create a customized search interface for a specific set of pages. The results from a search can be customized to return results meeting a publishers defined criteria. One useful feature of Ultraseek is that web publishers can invisibly integrate "form variables" into their search pages to achieve this result.
Ultraseek gives you a number of options for creating a search interface, from a simple box to an advanced menu-driven interface.
You do need a basic understanding of forms to build a more advanced search.
Searching a Single Set
A typical customized search interface will restrict a search's result
to a certain set. such as an Athena locker or web server. The syntax
for this would add a "query prefix", or qp, variable, as in the HTML
below:
<form name=seek method=GET action="http://search.mit.edu/query.html">
<input type=hidden name=qp value="url:web.mit.edu/admissions/www/">
<input type=text name=qt size=40 value="" maxlength=500>
<input type=submit value=" Search ">
<a href="http://search.mit.edu/help/">Help</a>
</form>
Search Admissions:
Searching Multiple Sets
Web publishers may have more than one "set" of content that they would
like users to be able to search from one interface. A department such
as Personnel might want users to be able to search the whole site or
just their job listings. The code below offers users the choice.
<form name=seek method=GET action="http://search.mit.edu/query.html">
<input type=radio name=qp value="url:web.mit.edu/personnel/" checked>Personnel Website<br>
<input type=radio name=qp value="url:web.mit.edu/personnel/jobs/">Job Listings Only<br>
<input type=text name=qt size=40 value="" maxlength=500>
<input type=submit value=" Search ">
<a href="http://search.mit.edu/help/">Help</a>
</form>
Search Personnel:
Options for Results
Ultraseek allows users to
choose how they see results from a query, including number of hits,
how they are sorted, and if summaries are shown. To add this option
to a search interface, this code needs to be added before the
</form> tag:
<select name=nh>
<option value="10" selected>10 hits
<option value="25">25 hits
<option value="100">100 hits
<option value="500">500 hits
</select>
<select name=rf>
<option value="0" selected>sort by relevance
<option value="1">sort by date
</select>
<select name=lk>
<option value="1" selected>show summaries
<option value="2">hide summaries
</select>
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Search Admissions:
Comments to
cwis-help@mit.edu