Simultaneous multiple language configuration

[TStone]

We are a multi-national company and have the need to present the intranet search page in multiple languages or have different search pages with separate languages.

I see that you have an option to generate the search template with a choice of language but I am not sure how I would make that work in my situation where I need to have more than one choice.

Do you have any suggestions for the best way to present this to my users?

With regards,
Tom Stone

[Ray]

We would advise creating multiple indexer configurations ("File"->"Save configuration As...") and have different .zcfg files like so:

mysite_english.zcfg
mysite_french.zcfg
mysite_japanese.zcfg
... etc.

Now with each of these configuration files, specify the start URL and skip options such that you only index the relevant portion of the site. You can then select the appropriate encoding and language for the search page. So the english index will skip all the japanese pages, and vice versa.

Each of these configurations will create a different set of index files and different search pages (choose different output folders too)

Then on your website you would have 3 different search engines, e.g.

http://www.mysite.com/search_en/search.php
http://www.mysite.com/search_fr/search.php
http://www.mysite.com/search_jp/search.php
.. and so forth.