How to customize snippet box to include timestamp (date) and url at top?

[Harish Chakravarthy]

Hello Everyone,

Greetings.

How can the snippet box be modified to include timestamp (date) and url at the top when results are sort by relevance similar to google search results?

Cheers
Harish
@harishvc

[Mathias Bierl]

You just have to move the part for showing timestamp and url from end of snippet to the place where you want it inside the XSLT

[John]

The part you need is in this section of the xml:

  A single result (do not customize)  specifically this part of that template:   <!-- *** Snippet Box *** -->

Each of the parts of an individual result are in there.  Just grab the bit you want and place it where you need it.  Note that you are on your own when you do this.  Google does not support changes like this.

John

[John]

Rereading your post you may just be asking "how do I display the timestamp and url."

Here is how to turn on each of those, Just find these in the xml and set each to a 1 to get them to show.  If you are working with the Page Layout template instead,  there are check boxes to turn these on under the search results section

<xsl:variable name="show_res_snippet">1</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="show_res_url">1</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="show_res_size">1</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="show_res_date">1</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="show_res_cache">1</xsl:variable>

[Harish Chakravarthy]

Thanks Mathias & John. Much appreciated.