Customizing a Search Result Display

Search result displays determine how the results of a search look on an Information Portal searching page (for example, how many elements of information are on a summary display and what the title and author text looks like in Information Portal or what labels those elements may have). (An element is a field of information from a bib record that appears on a search result display, such as a title or an author. For example, you may have a summary display that has a title element and an author element.)

Here is an example of a summary display:

Here are the different types of search result displays delivered with Information Portal. You can add, change, or delete search result displays for these types:

Browse lists (author, title, subject, Reserve Bookroom searches, Community Resource searches, and so forth)
Summary lists (keyword, Community Resource searches, and so forth)
Full (full bibs and Community Resource full displays, such as events, organizations, news, and so forth)
Item lists
Copy lists
My List (titles that users save in the My List area of Information Portal from their own book list)

Information Portal delivers default search result displays for most of these; however, your library may not want to use the default search result displays. You can change how these search results should display in Information Portal by adding a new display or changing an existing display.

When you add a new display or change an existing display, you must specify information about the elements that you want displayed. (For example, you may want the title, author, and publisher elements in a keyword summary display.)

You can specify these things about a search result display:

The elements that are on the display.
The order in which Information Portal displays the elements on the display.

However, you cannot specify the layout of the display; you cannot move elements around the display, change the display’s colors, and so forth.

This section explains these topics:

 


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