Sitewide Search

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Last Post: November 1, 2011   (RSS)

By s2smedia - October 10, 2011

Im trying to setup a search box on a site that will search ALL records.. lists and single viewers.

possible?

Re: [s2smedia] Sitewide Search

By Damon - October 10, 2011

Hi,

Take a look at the Multi-section Searching post by Dave here:
http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=61466#61466

Dave also includes an example code of a multi-search viewer to get started.

Hope that helps!
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Re: [Damon] Sitewide Search

By s2smedia - October 10, 2011

the Multi-Search.php file link is broken

Re: [s2smedia] Sitewide Search

By Damon - October 10, 2011

Hi,

>the Multi-Search.php file link is broken

Thanks for letting us know. The issue appears to be specific to Internet Explorer.

I tested in both Chrome and Firefox and was able to download the file.

Try using one of those browser to download for now.

Thanks!
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Re: [Damon] Sitewide Search

By s2smedia - October 12, 2011

thanks got it to work..

only issue now is that when I search a multi-worded phrases.. it displays pages that may have just one of those words..

for example..

I search "Medical Day Care"
(this phrase is only on one page)

but it displays ALL pages that have the words "Medical" "Day" "Care"

anyway to filter for this?

Re: [s2smedia] Sitewide Search

By Jason - October 14, 2011

Hi,

multiSearch works like most search engines, where it looks for each word in the string individually. If you want to search for the entire term only, you can put quotes around your search term:

ie,
"Medical Day Care"
instead of
Medical Day Care

Hope this helps
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Re: [Jason] Sitewide Search

By s2smedia - October 18, 2011

Sorry.. i realized that was a dumb question after I posted it..

I do have one last question regarding this..

I have a search box at the top of all of my pages.. how can I have it so when they enter a search term there.. it will search and direct them to my search page.

http://test.rbvhlinwood.com (example of search box at top)
http://test.rbvhlinwood.com/search.php (search page)

Re: [s2smedia] Sitewide Search

By Jason - October 19, 2011

Hi,

Sure, what you can do is set the action property in your <form> at the top of your page to "search.php". Next, change the name of your textfield to "q". That way, when you submit a search from that form, it will be as if it had come from search.php.

Hope this helps
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Re: [s2smedia] Sitewide Search

By s2smedia - October 28, 2011

What would be causing the blank page to appear?

wierd this page is doing it to:
http://rbvhweb.rbvhlinwood.com/RBVH_CherryHill/services.php

but this page isnt.. they are pretty much exactly the same

http://rbvhweb.rbvhlinwood.com/RBVH_Linwood/services.php