How Banner Field Settings Affect Search Results
When a user enters a query into a search box in the portal,
the portal searches the properties specified on the Banner Fields
page of the Search Results Manager and ranks those results based on
the specified weighting settings.
Note: Banner field settings apply to all searches: search from
the portal banner, advanced search, object selection search, and any
other portal search interfaces.
The default banner field properties
are Name, Description, and Full-Text Content. However, you can also
add other properties, such as Keyword, Department, or Author, to further
refine the search results.
Another way of controlling the search results is by modifying the
relevance weight for banner field properties. Overweighting a property
increases its relevancy ranking; and underweighting it decreases it.
For example, you can manipulate the search to first return documents
whose content matches the search string (by overweighting the Full-Text
Content property) followed by documents whose name matches the search
string (by underweighting the Name property). When users type widgets,
documents with widgets in the content appear first in a relevance-ranked
search result; they are followed by documents or files with widgets
in their names.
- Controlling Search Results with Banner Fields and WeightingWhen a user enters a query into a search box in the portal, the portal searches the properties specified on the Banner Fields page of the Search Results Manager and ranks the results based on the specified weighting settings. The default banner field properties are Name, Description, and Full-Text Content, with a high weight applied to Name. However, you can add other properties (such as Keyword, Department, or Author) and change the weighting to further refine the search results.
