Questions About Searching
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I am setting up a site with some fairly specific searching needs. Let me explain:
This site will have 3 main types of pages that need to be searchable.
1) Video Pages - These pages will have embedded videos with some text accompanying them. We want to assign Keywords that will help people find each video.
2) Text/Blog Pages - These page are short articles that we will be posting information on. They will also have keywords that we want to assign to them.
3) Text/Help Pages - Very similar to the 2nd, but we will differentiate between blog type and help type.
So, we need a global search that will find these pages and display the results. We would like some way in the search results to identify what type of page it is. Ideally, we will create a type of logo for each page type, and display that beside each search result.
Alternatively, we could simply group the search results. In this case it would display "Videos" then a list of all the videos, then "Help Pages" with a list, etc.
Of course we want the results to be filtered primarily on the match to the keywords, but secondary matches based on the text on the actual page.
Can somebody let me know if this is possible in some way with the included search feature, or if you know of a good add-on that will do the trick.
Thank you so much in advance for your help.
-Shaun
This site will have 3 main types of pages that need to be searchable.
1) Video Pages - These pages will have embedded videos with some text accompanying them. We want to assign Keywords that will help people find each video.
2) Text/Blog Pages - These page are short articles that we will be posting information on. They will also have keywords that we want to assign to them.
3) Text/Help Pages - Very similar to the 2nd, but we will differentiate between blog type and help type.
So, we need a global search that will find these pages and display the results. We would like some way in the search results to identify what type of page it is. Ideally, we will create a type of logo for each page type, and display that beside each search result.
Alternatively, we could simply group the search results. In this case it would display "Videos" then a list of all the videos, then "Help Pages" with a list, etc.
Of course we want the results to be filtered primarily on the match to the keywords, but secondary matches based on the text on the actual page.
Can somebody let me know if this is possible in some way with the included search feature, or if you know of a good add-on that will do the trick.
Thank you so much in advance for your help.
-Shaun
there isn't something that does that exactly, but with a little coding you could make a custom template for the search results which i think would do everything you want
Thanks, Mnkras.
I just have a couple more questions, and am hoping that somebody has simple answers, or can point me to some documentation with the answers we need.
How do I specify the keywords for all of my pages? For example, if a search is performed for "computer," I want to make sure that the results that are posted first are those with a Keyword of "computer." After those are listed, I would want the pages that have the word "computer" somewhere in the text to be listed after them.
Where am I supposed to be defining these keywords for each page? I have a developer who will be doing the custom work on the results page, but I just want to make sure I understand how to setup my pages with Keywords and how the search actually works first.
Thanks so much,
Shaun
I just have a couple more questions, and am hoping that somebody has simple answers, or can point me to some documentation with the answers we need.
How do I specify the keywords for all of my pages? For example, if a search is performed for "computer," I want to make sure that the results that are posted first are those with a Keyword of "computer." After those are listed, I would want the pages that have the word "computer" somewhere in the text to be listed after them.
Where am I supposed to be defining these keywords for each page? I have a developer who will be doing the custom work on the results page, but I just want to make sure I understand how to setup my pages with Keywords and how the search actually works first.
Thanks so much,
Shaun
