Perceptive Enterprise Search gives you complete control of the appearance of result lists and document browse pages. You can specify the appearance of results pages for all indexes or customize for individual indexes. You can even have multiple output formats per index through the use of index aliases.
Templates are standard HTML files that contain "sections" and special Perceptive Enterprise Search symbols. The Perceptive Enterprise Search symbols are substituted dynamically at run time. There are many Perceptive Enterprise Search symbols that can be used depending on the template you are modifying. The symbols allow you to create rich and dynamic pages without the need for any special programming or scripting.
For example, consider the following sample:
<H1>Search Results</H1> Your search for "{QUERY}" found {TOTALHITS} hits in {NUMDOCS} documents.
In this example, the {QUERY} symbol is replaced with the search text that the user executed to generate this page. The {TOTALHITS} symbol is replaced by the total number of hits encountered in all documents, and the {NUMDOCS} symbol is replaced by the number of documents found in the result list. The result of the above sample may look like:
<H1>Search Results</H1> Your search for "Procedures" found 375 hits in 142 documents.
Template files control the appearance of specific pages. Separate templates control the appearance of the query results, the document browse page, and the query-by-concept page. A global set of templates is found in the [WebSite]\WebTemplates folder.
Perceptive Enterprise Search allows you to format the following templates: