Presentation
This service offers visitors a configurable search engine on the pages.
Other search services are available. Please consult them to find the service best suited to your needs.
You can choose the search criteria that will be available to visitors.
Results can be ordered by relevance or by title.
You can choose the number of results per page.
Add the Page Search service
Click on Add a service ( Page tab) and choose the Page search service :
Service settings
The service is configured in 2 steps:
- search form settings
- results display (pagination, view, number of results, etc.)
Step 1: The first screen is used to define the search form.
| Parameter | Description | Mandatory |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Research title | No | |
| Search by content type | The types of content to search for. Select two or more content types to add a search criterion. If you select only one type of content, the search will be limited to that type (visitors will have no choice). If you select more than 2 content types, visitors will have the option of choosing the content type or filtering the results by type. Leave the list empty to search on all content types. | No | |
| Choice of content type | To change the content type selection method for the user in relation to the policy defined above :
| No | |
| Search on attributes |
Selection of attributes on which the visitor can perform a search. Each selected attribute will be displayed as a search criterion. |
No | |
| Search on a date interval (start date) |
Select a Date field to offer visitors a time interval search. By selecting "None", visitors cannot search by date. |
No | |
| Search on a date interval (end date) |
Select a Date field to offer visitors a time interval search. By selecting "None", visitors cannot search by date. |
No | |
| Advanced search | Check to activate advanced search (all words, exact phrase, none of the words) | No |
Step 2: The second screen is used to define search contexts.
| Parameter | Description | Mandatory |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Search by category | Site sections to be restricted in the search. Select at least 2 pages to offer visitors a search criterion. If you select only one section, the search will be restricted to pages in the selected section, and visitors will have no choice. If you select two or more categories, visitors will be able to choose which category to search via a drop-down list. Leave the list empty to search all sections of the website (without giving visitors a choice). |
No | |
| Search by label | Use this parameter to propose a label search criterion by selecting one or more labels with daughter labels. The field name will bear the name of the selected label, and the list will be made up of the corresponding label's daughter labels. A criterion will be created for each selected label. Leave blank if you do not wish to display this criterion. |
No | |
| Strict label search | This checkbox disables top-down autoposting. For example, if this box is checked and you have selected a search on the theme "Sport", only content tagged with this label will be brought up. If the box is unchecked, content tagged with "Sport" or a child tag ("Athletics", "Swimming", ...) will be visible in the search results. |
No | |
| Multisite search | Check this box if you wish to offer visitors a search on all sites. |
No | |
| Extending research to project spaces |
Check this box to extend the search to project spaces |
No | |
| Results display | Select service display mode:
| Yes | |
| Faceted search |
By checking this box, the pick-list criteria display the number of results in brackets, and become more refined as you select criteria. |
No | |
| Results page | Page containing the 'search engine' service actually performing the search. This parameter must be filled in if the option "On the page selected below" has been chosen for the previous parameter. | No | |
| Results by page | Page containing the 'search engine' service actually performing the search. | Yes | |
| Service identifier | Identifier used to communicate between two instances of this service (when criteria and results are not displayed on the same page). | No | |
| Display | Choice of rendering. Depends on the possibilities offered by the graphic charter used. | Yes |
Overview
How you render the service depends on your graphic charter.
Here's an example of what can be achieved.
Search form
Search results
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