A snippet contains the search terms that the user provides along with a portion of the term’s surrounding content to provide context.
The snippeting feature (also referred to as keyword in context) provides the ability to return an excerpt from a record—a snippet—to an application user who performs a record search query. A snippet contains the search terms that the user provides along with a portion of the term’s surrounding content to provide context. A Web application displays these snippets on the record list page of a query’s results. With the added context, a user can more quickly choose the individual records they are interested in.
You enable snippeting on individual members (fields) in a search interface that typically have many lines of content. For example, fields such as Description, Abstract, DocumentBody, and so on are good candidates to provide snippeting results.
For example, if a user searches for intense in a wine catalog, the record list for this query has many records that match intense. A snippet for each matching record displays on a record list page:
