Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual page 2118

Customizing Error and Response Message Templates
Customizing Error Messages
Customizing Response Messages
Testing Your Search and Print Solution
Error and response messages are used to either provide feedback to the user or
to request information from the user.
Error and response message templates are used to display the content of error
and response messages sent by the Web Search Server in response to search or
print errors. Similar to search and print templates, error and response
templates can be customized. However, because the contents of error and
response messages are built into NetWare Web Search Server, you cannot
modify the contents of the messages or the button objects that might appear,
depending on the type of response being generated.
There are several error messages that can be returned to a user. For example,
when users incorrectly use a search operator in a search form, they might get
the message, "Search Error: Incorrect use of Boolean operator." An error
number might also appear.
While you can utilize HTML tags to format an error message, add or remove
variables to determine what information is shown to the user, or even
reorganize where the messages will appear in the template, you cannot modify
the message itself.
The same concepts apply to response messages, but response messages return
buttons that a user can click. Which buttons appear are determined by the
NetWare Web Search Server. While you can modify the labels of these
buttons, you cannot determine which buttons will appear, or when.
Once you've completed customizing the templates and the search form, you
can test them in your Web browser by pointing to the search form URL and
entering a search string. See
about how to access the NetWare Web Search form.
HINT:
Remember that a search cannot be performed until you have defined at
least one index and generated it using NetWare Web Search Manager. Refer to
Web Search Manger's online Help for the steps required in defining and generating
an index. Also, see Chapter 11, "Introducing NetWare Web Search Server," on
page 131 for an overview of indexes.
"Taking a Test Run" on page 136
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for information