Site search page
Visitors use site search pages to search for content on your site. You can include filters, sorts, and other standard features in your site-search pages, and even have different search pages for different sites.
Site search pages are also where you can turn on search spotlights, which automatically highlight assets of your choosing according to terms and dictionaries that you configure. For information, see Dictionaries, terms, and spotlights.
For a wire frame example of what this content type can look like on your site, see Site search page design.
To create a site search:
- In the header, click .
- From the Create list, select Site Search Page.
- Using the following table as a reference, fill out the fields to create a site search page.
- Complete your site’s workflow and publish the site search.
Site Search Page fields
Click each tab below to see a description of the associated fields.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Title | Enter a title. The title is visible to the visitors to your site. |
| Description | Enter a description that describes this asset. This description is visible to the visitors to your site. |
| Results Per Page | Enter the desired number of search results per page. Previous and next buttons are available to page through the results. |
| Types | Select the content types that Brightspot will return when search queries are made. |
| User Displayed Filters | Select the types of search filters available for visitors on your site, such as date published or content type. Visitors see checkboxes next to each filter in your site search. For details, see Setting the user displayed filters for site search. |
| Sorting | Select the fields by which visitors can sort the search results. If you specify sorting, Brightspot does not apply boosts. |
| Filtering Rules | Select the rules by which Brightspot filters the search results. These filtering rules are not visible to visitors to your site. |
| Boost Configuration | Set the criteria and matching weights for ensuring certain assets appear toward the top of the search results. Select Standard or Custom.
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| Stop Words | Enter a list of words that do not count toward search results. |
| Field | Description |
| Title | Text appearing in the asset's <title> tag. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new title. |
| Suppress SEO Display Name | If toggled on, your site's name will not appear in the <title> tag and subsequently in search results. |
| Description | Text appearing in the asset's <meta name="description"> tag. Brightspot automatically populates this field from data on the Main tab, and you can override this as needed by entering a new description. |
| Robots | Text appearing in the item’s <meta name="robots"> tag. For an explanation of the available options, see Robots Meta Directives. |
| AMP Disabled | Toggle on to disable generation of an AMP version of this asset. For details, see AMP. |
| Field | Description |
| Allow Non Permalinked | Toggle on to allow assets without a permalink to appear in the results of a site search page. |
| Locales | Select All Locales, Current Locale, or Some Locales to determine the locale in which the module is displayed. This serves as an exclusion filter to prevent items in different locales from inappropriately populating the module. |
Logos & Icons Overrides
| Field | Description |
| Logo | Choose Select to select a new logo to override the inherited logo set on this page, retain Inherited to keep the inherited logo, or select None to display no logo. |
| News Publisher Logo | Select a new image to serve as the news publisher logo that displays on this asset. |
| Default Promo Image | Image appearing in the asset's image when the asset is used as a promo. Brightspot automatically populates this image from the site's default promo image, and you can override this as needed by selecting a new image. |
Layout Overrides
| Field | Description |
| Hat | Select one of the options to override the inherited hat. For details, see Creating a hat. |
| Navigation | Select one of the options to override the inherited navigation. For details, see Creating a navigation. |
| Banner | Select one of the options to override the inherited banner. For details, see Applying a breaking news banner. |
| Footer | Select one of the options to override the inherited footer. For details, see Creating a footer. |
| Above | Select one of the options to override the inherited Above layout block. For details, see Above, Aside, and Below layout blocks. |
| Aside | Select one of the options to override the inherited Aside layout block. For details, see Above, Aside, and Below layout blocks. |
| Below | Select one of the options to override the inherited Below layout block. For details, see Above, Aside, and Below layout blocks. |
| Field | Description |
| Dictionary | Choose an existing dictionary to be used in grouping search results together. This setting helps prevent terms in one locale from triggering a search result in another locale. For additional information, see Dictionaries, terms, and spotlights. |
| Max Spotlights | Enter the numeric value for the maximum number of spotlights permitted on a site search page (e.g., 10). There is no limit to this value. For additional information, see Dictionaries, terms, and spotlights. |
| Field | Description |
| Locale | Sets the content's locale. This setting can also be used to auto-localize content based on the users requested locale. |
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