Customizing Search Result Templates; How The Gateway Displays Search Results; Search Result Tables - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 - GATEWAY CUSTOMIZATION Manual

Customizing Search Result Templates

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Customizing Search Result Templates
The following sections describe how the gateway displays search results and
contains procedures for customizing the gateway search result templates:
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How the Gateway Displays Search Results

• Modifying Search Result Templates
How the Gateway Displays Search Results
When a user submits a standard search or advanced search from the gateway, the
gateway constructs a search string and filter for the corresponding search object
and queries the Directory Server. The Directory Server responds with matching
entries in the LDAP database. The gateway uses a search result template to display
the entries returned by the Directory Server.

Search Result Tables

Search results are displayed as tabular data. Headings in each result tables reflect
the object attributes identified in the search result template.
For example, the heading row on the search results form for a People search
displays the Name, User ID, Phone Number, E-Mail Address, and Group
attributes.
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Make sure to place new patterns near the top of the pattern
definitions for a given object. For example, in the
entry, place customized patterns before the pattern that begins with
the @ symbol. Patterns near the end of the entry are more general,
and will match many different strings.
dsgw-people