Funnelback for higher education
| This guide applies to the Squiz Experience Cloud version of Funnelback for higher education. See the v15.x Funnelback for higher education documentation for earlier releases. |
Overview
Funnelback for higher education is a pre-configured search solution designed for the higher education sector, built from years of Funnelback expertise working with universities.
It provides a set of common university search features packaged in an easy and quick to deploy solution.
Components
Funnelback for higher education is divided into multiple components:
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A set of example component data sources (e.g. courses, events, faculty), with predefined metadata class mappings.
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A set of re-usable display component templates (e.g. tabs, facets, video-style result, course-style result)
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A results page that defines the search results template and static resources.
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A search package that draws together the different component data sources which are included in the search.
Implementing Funnelback for higher education
Implementing Funnelback for higher education requires a number of steps:
- Plan a new higher education search
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This guides you through the work that should be completed before you attempt to setup Funnelback for higher education.
- Setup a new higher education search
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Setup of a new higher education search is via a web-based setup tool.
- Configure the higher education data sources
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This guides you through the steps required to configure the data sources used in the higher education search. It includes configuring the include/exclude rules and defining your metadata mappings.
- Configure the higher education search results page
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This guides you through the steps required to configure the search results page, including configuration of auto-completion, headers and footers and result templates.