Website Search

Every site now has a built-in search service. This complex technology crawls all webpages on your site nightly and indexes them.

You can place the website search component anywhere on your site, for guests and members.

It is smart enough to work out what access the current user has and only returns results for them. This means for members you can let them use this to find a document on your website.

The Website Seach component can also be used to contain search to just a certain area, use the URL prefix of \features for example to only return results that match this prefix. The below search example does that. If it does not find anything, it gives the user the opportunity to search the whole site.

Documents

The search engine also includes other items it finds on the pages such as Documents (e.g use a Document Library List web component on a page*) it will index the contents of these documents individually (PDF and Word Documents) and add it to the overall webpage search. These search results also know if you have access to a page so it won't show documents even exist to members or staff or any other users who are not logged in where a webpage required security.

If a document appears as search results and a user user clicks on the link to a Document, the system will take the user to that page, scroll down to where that document is and present that document to them.

*We plan to extend this feature to Document Libraries in late 2024.

Event Search Content

The search engine also includes other items it finds on the pages such as Events (e.g use a EventList or EventList 2.0 web component on a page) it will index the contents of these documents individually (including location/date) and add it to the overall webpage search.

These search results also know if a user has access to the webpage it was shown on, so it won't show Events that are not publicly available on one of your webpages to anonymous users.

If an event appears as search results and a user user clicks on the link to an event, the system will take the user to that Event Page.

If you add Event Admins with a description, the surname is now searchable and the description will also display, e.g Presenter: Mactaggart