Configure the general settings

The general settings page allows you to configure various key settings of SmartHub. These settings are necessary to be able to query indexed content from your content sources and surface them in your SmartHub results. The general settings page is split into the following four sections:

General settings
Search engines
User experience tuning
Import/export settings

Refer to the following table for more information on what each section will allow you to configure:

Section	Description
General settings	The General Settings section allows you to do the following: View the Admin and UI version of you SmartHub instance. View the security settings that are currently configured for your environment. Clicking on the link will redirect you to the security settings configuration page. Configure your mixing algorithm to specify how you want to weigh the value of search results from specific search engines. Configure the query timeout value to specify the time span that each search engine will use for a query response. Configure your search error display to specify how you want to display errors if no results are returned before the timeout. Configure the storage settings for your indexes and Elastic server.
Search Engines	From the Search Engine section, you can connect SmartHub to your search engine. If you have existing search engines, you will be able to view them, change their status, and delete the search engine. If you click on the search engine, you can edit the search engine settings and apply user experience tuning at the search engine level.
User Experience Tuning	From the User Experience Tuning section, you can add and edit results and query tuning stages. User experience tuning stages added to this section are applied at the global level and will impact all search engines.
Import/export settings	This section allows you to import or export the FederatorConfiguration.xml file. This section is especially useful if you are upgrading your version of SmartHub and you want to ensure that you maintain your settings post-upgrade.