Hi
I'm looking at various ways to guide people to useful content on our website.
One think I'd like to explore is adding a search function which limits search results to certain webpages. Similar to Citizens Advice home page "how can we help"
Google seems to offer something https://support.google.com/programmable-search/answer/4513751?hl=en&sjid=13503030548849872544-EU&visit_id=638527498256447203-607424444&ref_topic=4513742&rd=1
Has anyone used this?
I'd prefer to adapt the existing search function in Voice though and wondering if there is a way to configure it and present it within a webpage.
Thanks for any advice!
Sue
Hi Sue,
There's no way (without some custom development work) to add a search that only searches a sub-section of a site. But all is not necessarily lost.
There are a few options of what you can do with Voice as it is:
- You could create a search box on a page by just adding a form widget as Raw HTML, which would then work exactly as the normal search box but be more obvious. (I can give you the HTML to use)
- You could create some filtering using keywords or categories and the Filtered Item List includelet to allow users to find pages, but without a search box. Here's an example. And here's another example. And another. This would do filtering within a section of a site.
- In theory using the Filtered Item List option, we could add a search box which filters the content in the list (like clicking on the boxes does in those examples). It would work a bit more like the search in the A-Z Directory, rather than a full site search. This would be a smaller amount of dev work.
Hope this helps!
Joe
Hi Joe
Many thanks! I will have a play/take a look further and see what would work for us.,
Could you send the html you mentioned in (1)
Thanks
Best
Sue