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Samantha_O's avatar
Samantha_O
Champion
10 years ago

Custom Search Component, do I need one?

We want to move the search bar from the main panel to the side rail in one section of our Community.  When we move the component around in Studio, the drop-down causes the Search widget to take up ex...
  • VarunGrazitti's avatar
    VarunGrazitti
    10 years ago
    Ok, another way of achieving this. Create a custom component(don't worry, we will still use the default search component) and include the search component in it and hide the drop down in this one from the parameter. Add a condition to this custom component so this renders only when the page is the one you want. Add the css inside the condition as well. Should get you what you're looking for.
Samantha_O's avatar
Samantha_O
Champion

Thanks for the quick reply.  From what I was seeing it looked/sounded like if I choose to hide the drop-down in the search component it would affect the Community as a whole.  If I update the XML with this, would it be just for one page (or is there a way to make it just for one page, or if it is in the smaller column) or throughout the whole Community? 

 

Thanks for the idea on the search icon instead of the button, that sounds like it will definitely help.  Then the same question above applies here, would this be for the Community as a whole? 

VarunGrazitti's avatar
VarunGrazitti
Boss
10 years ago
Ok, another way of achieving this. Create a custom component(don't worry, we will still use the default search component) and include the search component in it and hide the drop down in this one from the parameter. Add a condition to this custom component so this renders only when the page is the one you want. Add the css inside the condition as well. Should get you what you're looking for.
  • Samantha_O's avatar
    Samantha_O
    Champion
    10 years ago
    Thanks!
  • fleonyleon's avatar
    fleonyleon
    Guide
    6 years ago

    Hello Varun,

    We have created a custom search component for similar reasons: better design, and it is working perfectly.

    The problem we now have is that the searches are not being captured by Analytics, so the LSI report on number of searches shows zero.

    One of the objectives of the custom component was to make it more user friendly and increase searches and now we don't have a way to measure it.

    We were told by Support to include the following query parameter to API call for them to be captured by Analytics:

    api.for_ui_search=true

    Problem is the change was done yesterday and we still don't see the results of quantity of searches in Analytics.

    Any advise you can give us? There is no documentation on this parameter that we can use as a reference so we might be using it incorrectly...or maybe we just need to wait for Analytics a while longer?

    Regards,

    Fico