Reporting Architecture

In this section, we’ll take a peek under the hood of the search usage reporting component of SSPs. Feel free to skip this section if you need to know only about the end result of the actual reports and what they can do for you. However, the information about the architectural structure presented here might prove valuable to application developers customizing the Search Centers, in particular for customizing the look and feel of the search results using XSL. See Chapter 3, for information about customizing the search results with XSL.

The technical concept behind the logging mechanism of search usage data differs significantly from the logging mechanism of site usage data. The latter is a feature available at the level of ...

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