Funnelback Documentation - any plans to move to manuals?

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I’m trying to find information about ‘concurrent search’ in the Funnelback Documentation (https://docs.funnelback.com) are there any plans to move to manuals?

And could anyone point me to what part of the Funnelback Documentation discusses concurrent searches (as referred to in https://www.funnelback.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/31799/Funnelback-vs-Google-Search-Appliance.pdf).

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Hi Douglas -

There aren’t any plans to move to manuals at this time.

What the GSA called ‘Concurrent Searches’ would be best delivered via either ‘ExtraSearch’ or ‘ExtraResults’ functionality within Funnelback.

See also:

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Hi Gordon,

The GSA doesn’t call them concurrent searches, that’s the Squiz Funnelback-vs-Google-Search-Appliance.pdf document:

" (e.g. Google’s ‘OneBox’ aims to provide similar functionality to Funnelback’s ‘Concurrent Search’. "

Someone may want to update that …

Can Funnelback support external ‘search services’ (e.g. similar to how the GSA can use both external and internal onebox providers (c.f. Google Help)

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Hi Douglas -

Good pickup - the whitepaper aims to map vendors’ functionalities in a buzzword-free fashion: “OneBox” is a little obscure, and “ExtraResults” and “ExtraSearch” aren’t much better. Generally, when describing these functionalities, “Concurrent Search” is the phrasing that seems to best explain it.

The ‘external search services’ support isn’t natively provided by Funnelback, but given that the sole inputs are a search endpoint, a query and an XSLT template for transforming XML, I’d look to solve that use case via:

  1. client side with asynchronous requests to the external provider, templating provided by your Javascript templating library of choice, or:
  2. server side using Funnelback’s built-in Freemarker template engine to template up the XML

See also:
http://freemarker.org/docs/xgui_preface.html
https://docs.funnelback.com/freemarker.html