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- How
do you customize the font for the results?
To control the font of the returned results, simply place
the StarSearch component (not LinkForm) inside a text box.
You will then be able to set the font using the Text Properties
palette.
- How
do you modify what results are returned?
You can choose whether or not to display the description,
keywords, or url of the page that is returned in the search.
For description and keywords, you can select the total number
of characters that are displayed. The default value for
the number of characters is 0. We recommend setting this
to a big number like 200. Sometimes the best plan is to
turn both keywords and description to 'No'.
- How
do you get stacked page to have unique titles?
If you have done a StarSearch on stacked pages, you may
have noticed that each page has the exact same title. This
is very confusing to the end user. Fortunately with StarSearch
you can set up the stacked pages to have unique titles that
are derived from the database from which they are generated.
In the Layout section of the stacked page, press the HTML
button. Inside the Head type in
<TITLE>$DATAOBJECT(titlefield)</TITLE>
where titlefield is the exact name of a field in your
database. The Stacked pages will now be created with two
title tags. StarSearch will use the second one to display
on the results page.
- How
do you exclude a page from the results?
Any page that has the text "#site search ignore#"
will be excluded in the search. Right-click inside
the page layout, select "Layout HTML...", and
place the following line between the head tags:
<!--
#site search ignore# -->
- How
do you customize a page description?
By default SiteSearch will set the description tag to be
the first 300 characters on the page. You can override this
text by using a Meta description tag. If the SiteSearch
finds such a tag, it will use its content instead.
To insert a Meta Description Tag into a page, click on
the Layout HTML button and place between the head tags:
<META
NAME="description" CONTENT="The description goes here">
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- Does
not work in Preview.
- Does
not work in partial site publish.
- Does
not work in local publish when using IE4.
- The
Results component cannot be in a Form or Form Layout.
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