Finder

People finder

A directory of all ministers and senior officials on GOV.UK

How it works

This finder lists all the contacts within the UK government. End-users can use the search component to filter the returned results on the page based on a topic and via search.

Live example

All ministers and senior officials on GOV.UK

How it's built

These are the underlying technologies that make-up the people finder front template.

Content schema

finder

What is a content schema?

A GOV.UK content schema is a JSON schema that defines the data structure of a piece of content. It determines what content and metadata attributes the page has.

Content type

finder

What is a content type?

Content type describes the types of pages that exist on GOV.UK. It’s stored in the content item (JSON) as document_type. It powers search filters in all finders and changes the content type label users see on GOV.UK pages.

Rendering app

finder-frontend

What is a rendering app?

Rendering apps render content to GOV.UK end-users.

Components

The components used within the people finder frontend template

Component	Source	Publishing app input field(s)
Layout super navigation header	Autogenerated in frontend template
Contextual breadcrumbs	Autogenerated in frontend template
Page title	Autogenerated in frontend template
Search	Autogenerated in frontend template
Heading	Autogenerated in frontend template
Subscription link	Autogenerated in frontend template
Document list	Autogenerated in frontend template
Feedback	Autogenerated in frontend template
Layout footer	Autogenerated in frontend template

Help improve this frontend template

To help make sure that this page is useful, relevant and up to date, instructions on how to contribute can be found on the GitHub repository (opens in a new tab).