The Quick Search part is a text box with a search button that appears on the web page for site users to search for information. Due to its small size, it is useful to include on a web page template to add search functionality on pages throughout your site. The search text box has a limit of 255 characters.
Because the part does not have room to display search results, you must select a web page for the results to appear on. The web page must contain a Search part. This part is large enough to display search results similar to Google. The first line is a hyperlink to the web page. The next several lines provide a preview of the text that contains the word or phrase a user searched on. Words or phrases used in the search appear in bold.
Note: The primary difference between the Quick Search and Search parts is how results appear on your site. With the Quick Search part, you select a web page for results to appear on. With a Search part, results appear automatically below the Search part. You can add a Quick Search part to a web page template; however, we recommend you not add Search parts to a template.
The parts available for a quick search are indexed by part. For example, a Formatted Text and Images part contains “boy.” On the same page, a Discussion Group part contains “scout.” If a user enters “boy scout” in the search field, results do not appear because the same part does not contain both words.
Warning: When the Quick Search part performs a search, it includes all pages on your website that contain a searchable part. Therefore, the potential exists for search results to return unfinished web pages. To prevent this, establish security to restrict the users who can view unfinished pages.
Note: When a user searches for a word or term on your website, search results include pages only. Searches do not include templates or the parts on templates.
The Quick Search part uses “stem” search. When a user enter a word in the search field, the search results include the word plus its plurals and verb tenses. For example, if a user searches for “run,” the search results return parts that contain the words “run,” “ran,” and “running.” The search also accepts certain operators and wildcards in the search text box. You can use the asterisk, quotation marks, and the minus sign in the Quick Search part.
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Operator |
Function |
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Asterisk (*) |
Begins with (For example, enter “donat*” to return results such as donate, donating, donation.) |
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Quotation marks (“ ”) |
Whole phrases (For example, “Become a Member Now” returns results that contain the entire phrase.) |
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Minus ( - ) |
All words in search box minus preceding word or words (For example, “event registration -form” searches for “event” and “registration,” but excludes results that contain “form.”) |
When a site visitor performs a search with the Quick Search part, security is upheld. For example, a web page contains the Formatted Text and Images part with the phrase “Board Member Personal Addresses.” Only users in the Board Member role with the applicable task rights can access this page. When other users search for “board member + addresses,” the page is not returned.
For information about security, see Users & Security.