Setting Up Hit Highlighting

This section describes how to highlight matching search terms in result hits.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
About Highlighting
Configure the Search Result Summary

Display and Configure a Hit Highlight

  1. In the Administration Console, go to Search > Search Logics > yourSearchLogic.
  2. On the Hit Content tab, click a meta to display its settings.
  3. In the meta settings, click Customize.
  4. Select the Highlight check box.
  5. Expand Operations, and expand Highlight.

    Configure the highlight as required. For details on highlight options, see the tooltips.

  6. Click Apply.

Specify Extra Prefix Handlers or Facets for Highlighting

  1. In the Administration Console, go to Search > Search Logic > yourSearchLogic.
  2. On the Hit Content tab, click a meta to display its settings.
  3. In the meta settings, click Customize.
  4. Expand Operations, click Add operation, and then select Highlight.
    1. For Extra prefix handlers for highlight, enter the names of the additional prefix handlers, separated by commas (the list of prefix handlers is on the Query Language tab).
    2. For Facet ids for highlight, enter the facet names, separated by commas.
  5. Click Apply.

When you search using these prefix handlers or facets, matching search terms in this hit meta are highlighted.