You can make some external search engines available to people using Jive SBS. If a search engine supports OpenSearch, you can add support for it so that the search engine will be used (in addition to the internal search engine) when people search for content. Examples of OpenSearch engines include Technorati and Wikipedia, not to mention Jive SBS communities.
Engines that support OpenSearch provide a descriptor XML file and usually publish the file at a public URL. The descriptor tells OpenSearch clients what they need to know to query the search engine.
Admin Console: System > Settings > OpenSearch Engines
- Enter a descriptor URL, then click Add Engine from Descriptor URL. The
application will visit the URL to retrieve the descriptor XML file, then
retrieve the needed information from the file.
If the application gets the information it needs, that's all there is to it. However, you might get prompted for more information, such as login credentials if the engine is secure. Note that you can edit engine properties later.
- Click Add Engine from Form, then fill out the form to include the
required information. The information asked for here is what would be included
in the descriptor XML file. This is the same information you can edit for an
engine, as described below.
- The icon URL is a URL to an icon representing the search engine. Jive SBS will display this in its UI.
- The application uses the search URL to send the user's query.
- The search result content type is the content type, such as application/rss+xml
or text/html, that the search engine's results will be returned in. If this is a
type that the application can parse, such as application/rss+xml, the results
will be displayed in the UI; if not, the application will display a link through
which the user can separately search the engine's site itself.
If you specify HTML as the content type, then the end user UI will display a link in a sidebar that people can use to search for their phrase at the OpenSearch location. If they do, their results will appear in a new window.
If you specify RSS or Atom as the content type, then the application will display a new tab with the Name value. The application will parse returned results into a format that displays on the search results page, under the new tab.
- The query test term can be anything you like to test queries.
- You might need to enter a username and password if the search engine requires login credentials.
- The Enabled check box is selected by default, meaning that user searches will query the engine. Clear the box to make the search engine unavailable to people.