How to Modify Preference Defaults

The Preference Defaults page of the Interface Editor corresponds to the Preferences page of the Search Interface. The Preference Defaults page can be used by the administrators to adjust the default values of the Search Interface's preferences. Note that each of these values can be subsequently modified by the users.

To modify the default value of user preferences:

Access the Manage Interfaces page (Global Settings > Manage Interfaces).
Click the appropriate Search Interface. Its corresponding Interface Editor page is displayed.
If the Preference Defaults page is not displayed, click .
Select the appropriate parameters. For more information, refer to the following table.
Click .

Section	Description
General Preferences	Determines how results are displayed and opened. Number of results per page: Determines the number of results displayed in each page. Number of characters in excerpt: Determines the maximum number of characters contained in excerpts. See also: Search Interface Help > What Are Excerpts? Always open results in new window: Indicates whether Web documents are opened in a different browser window or the same window as the result list.
Displayed Result Fields	Determines the information displayed concerning each result. Note that custom display fields are displayed by default; therefore they are not listed in this section. See also: How to Add Display Fields Result Number: Displays the document's rank in the result list. Address: Displays the document's path. Excerpt: Displays the document's excerpt. See also: Search Interface Help > What Are Excerpts? Thumbnail:Displays a preview of image documents (for example, .tif or .psd). Language: Displays the document's language. Last Click: Displays the document's last opening date (i.e. last time it was opened from the Search Interface). Score: Displays the document's relevancy score in percentage. See also: Administration Tool Help > What Is Ranking? Size: Displays the document's size in bytes. Concepts: Displays the document's concepts extracted by CES' linguistic algorithm. Modified date: Displays the document's last modification date. Indexed date: Displays the document's indexing date (i.e. date it was added to the index). Author: Displays the name of the document's author. E-mail (From, To, CC): Displays the email's sender and recipients (including carbon copy recipients). Collection/source: Displays the document's parent collection and source. Contextual commands: Displays links to open the document's Quick View, Summary and parent folder. See also: Administration Tool Help > What is a Quick View?, Search Interface Help > What Are Summaries? Rating: Displays the document's collaborative rating ( ) and personal appreciation ( ). See also: Administration Tool Help > What Is Collaborative Rating?, Administration Tool Help > What Is Personal Appreciation?
Advanced Performances	Filter duplicates: Displays only one copy of each document even if duplicates exist in different sources. Note that, for this option to be effective, the duplicate document filtering action must be enabled in the Administration Tool (for more information, refer to Administration Tool Help > How to Modify General Source Parameters). Include interface language in score calculation: Assigns a higher relevancy score to documents in the same language as the Search Interface. Use thesaurus for automatic query expansion: Applies the thesaurus to queries. See also: Search Interface Help > What Is the Thesaurus? Automatically use corrected query suggestion (did you mean): Applies the corrected query suggestion to the index. Use wildcards for queries: Allows the use of wildcards. Note that wildcards must first be enabled in the Administration Tool (for more information, refer to Administration Tool Help > How to Modify the Index Settings). Use collaborative rating: Allows the use of collaborative rating. Note that collaborative rating must first be enabled in the Administration Tool (for more information, refer to Administration Tool Help > How to Customize the Ranking of Search Results). See also: Search Interface Help > What Is Collaborative Rating? Open emails with Microsoft Outlook: Allows to open emails using Microsoft Outlook.
SharePoint Preferences	Restrict search to the current list, if any: Searches only within the displayed list. Restrict search to the current site: Searches only within the displayed site. Restrict search to the top level site: Searches only within the top level site. Restrict search to SharePoint content only: Searches only within the SharePoint content. Do not restrict search: Searches all SharePoint content indexed.