Administrative Tasks in the Search Center

Let’s assume that you have the role of an administrator whose responsibility it is to configure the Search Center (or possibly multiple Search Centers) in a collaboration portal. You will most likely get requests from end users to make changes to the configuration of these sites in order to optimize their search experience. This optimization typically consists of the following common tasks. We’ll look at each of these tasks in more detail in the following sections.

  • Extra custom pages can be added to the Search Center to expose additional functionality.

  • Custom tabs can be created that allow the user to access the custom Search pages.

  • The end-user experience for expressing a search query in the Search page ...

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