Coveo .NET Front-End Interface Editor

The .NET Interface Editor is a web application tool used by Coveo administrators to easily customize or create Coveo .NET Front-End search hubs and search interfaces (see About .NET Search Hubs and Search Interfaces).

Example: You can create a search interface to integrate in a Web page and another to integrate in a SharePoint intranet. Each of these search interfaces can have different scopes, options, CSS formats, etc.

The .NET Interface Editor user interface is organized in tabs:

• Search Hubs tab

  Used to set the hub name, available search interfaces for the standard, mobile and Outlook versions of a hub. Set the width, position, default culture and facet position of search interfaces (see .NET Interface Editor - Search Hubs Tab).

• Search Interfaces tab

  Used to configure all aspects of each search interface: available features, CSS styles, facets, preference defaults, and more (see .NET Interface Editor - Search Interfaces Tab).

• Audiences tab

  Used to define groups of users that can be assigned to control access to search interfaces (see What Is an Audience?).

• Miscellaneous tab

  Used to set custom file types, per URI settings, and languages (see .NET Interface Editor - Miscellaneous Tab).

• Deployment tab

  Used to replicate search hub and search interface configurations to other Front-End servers (see .NET Interface Editor - Deployment Tab).

The .NET Interface Editor keeps the configuration data in an XML file stored on the Front-End server. In a Coveo topology with multiple Front-End servers, the best practice is to use on of the Front-End servers as the source on from which you deploy the configuration to the other servers (see Deploying Search Interface Settings).

Note: You can also transfer search interface configuration files from one Coveo instance to another. This process is useful for example when you want to transfer changes to a search interface between the Coveo instances in your development, quality assurance, and production environments.