Search component

create a search area for your portal visitors

  • creates easy access to content
  • different options for filters
  • includes suggestions

With the Search component you can give the portal visitor easy access to your content, through a text based search with different filter options.

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Introduction

The Search component lets you provide the common configuration for your site search. A Search Area. Property or Tag Filter component can be added inside, after the general Search component has been configured.

Elastic Search

Please note, that in order to use the Search component or any kind of search on your pages, the Elastic Search configuration has to be set up.

Glossary:

Example:

CMS settings

The Search component can be found in the Common Configuation Menu in the Sidekick.

tab: General

Editorial hint:

BB Codes  

Since there is no Rich Text Editor for writing the textual content of the component, it is helpful to use BB Codes for styling. You can insert a line break or simply make some text bold, italic or red.

tab: No Results

Editorial hint:

Search Weight

Please note that you can influence the search results, by adjusting the Search Weight of each page in their Page Properties. If you for example, set the Search Weight of a page to 0%, this page will not come up as a search result anymore.

tab: Settings

After the Search component has been configured the Search Area, Property and Tag Filter components can also be found in the Common Configuation Menu in the Sidekick.

Search Area Filter component

tab: General

Search Property Filter component

tab: General

Search Tag Filter component

tab: General

Front-end examples

No Search Area Filter  |  No Search Property Filter  |  No Search Tag Filter

With Search Area Filter  |  No Search Property Filter  |  No Search Tag Filter

With Search Area Filter  |  With Search Property Filter  |  No Search Tag Filter

With Search Area Filter  |  With Search Property Filter  |  With Search Tag Filter

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