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How to Configure the GXPortal Search Tools

Offering a search tool to users is almost essential. GXPortal includes a search engine to make searches on content, pages or channels.

GXPortal has its own search engine - GXPortlet "Search Tools"- that feature the following search options:

1- By keyword, searching on the content base.
In this case the keywords entered by users are searched in all the content that has been published in the portal. As a result, a list of the pages containing the keywords is displayed, as long as the profile assigned to the user grants him/her permission to access that content.
This option is recommended when the portal handles a great deal of information published in many pages, so users can find what they are looking for faster.

2- By page descriptions.
In this case the words entered by the user are searched in the descriptions assigned to the portal pages. The result returns a list of links to the pages containing the word entered.
This option is useful if the portal has a page published for each product of the company, so the user can quickly access all the product information.

3- By channel descriptions.
In this case the name assigned to the channels is searched. Channels have the purpose of grouping pages, so the result of this search is a list of links to the pages within the channel.
As in the previous case, it may be useful to use this search method when there is a channel assigned to each product. The result of the search will display all the pages that show information about the product.

In these last two cases, the results will display the list of channels, and within it, all the pages that match the search criteria.

Follow these instructions to use and configure the GXPortlet:

1- Go to the page where you want to show the Search Tools and select the design option (Option "Administration of design and navigation ? Design pages -- Click on the page name)

2- Add a new sector in the area where you want the searcher to be viewed, and select the option "Content searcher"

3- Under "General," in the GXPortlet Search Tools, you'll find a property called "Type of search" that enables you to choose whether to make the search on the content, the pages or the channels. The rest of the property settings allow you to configure the searcher design.

Examples:

EMI Music Mexico: search by channel descriptions
The site of EMI Music Mexico has a content channel for each company's artist. Thus, the searcher was configured to search the descriptions assigned to each channel.
In that way, when somebody visiting the EMI Music Mexico site writes an artist's name in the searcher, the results display the list of pages ?in the channel assigned to the artist- showing the artist's information.
http://www.emimusic.com.mx  

GXPortal: search on the content base
In the case of the GXPortal site the searcher is configured to search on the content published in the portal. Therefore, if you write the word "Workflow," all the related content published on the portal will be shown.
http://www.gxportal.com

 

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