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It is now increasingly popular to be able to search for static content such as SEO metadata and articles on a selling site. For example, you can make searchable how products are used, through articles, blogs, videos and pictures

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We have widened our search functionality to not only search for products, but also static content, such as articles, videos, or images.

Your customers can search for a specific product as well as additional content, such as marketing material, assembly videos, or feature articles on product care. A search for “delivery” may return results related to lead times or cost. A customer could search for firmware files to upgrade the smart device they purchased from you. We have widened the search functionality to include such static content.



How does it work?

When 'Static Content Search' is set to be included, the search engine will index publicly accessible page content for the Search facility.

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Follow these steps to configure the article content search Content Search functionality for your site:

1.

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Turn on Content Search

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  1. To turn on this feature, go to Settings → Feature Management → Content

  2. Locate Content Search and click Configure.
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3.       Turn on

  1. Toggle on Enable Content Search Feature.
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4.       Set 6.       Select

  1. Set the schedule to a few minutes in the future, and click Save and Exit.
5.       Select Advanced Settings from the CMS side-menu.

  1. In CMS, navigate to Advanced Settings →Lucene Search Settings.
7.       Select

  1. Select the Index Settings tab.
8.       Tick the checkbox to enable indexing

  1. To enable indexing, tick the Enabled checkbox.

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9.       While you're there, let's enable

  1. Tick Perform Partial Word Searches.
You do that by ticking Perform Partial Word Searches and selecting


  1. Select the Search Type:
Scoring Boolean Query, Constant Score Query, and 11.      Click the
  1. Matching Terms.

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10.      Click Update to save your settings.

  1. To save the settings, click Update.

  2. Click the Indexing tab.
12.      Click the "Reindex Page Content" button to initiate an index

  1. To initiate re-indexing of the content
on
  1. of all pages, click the Reindex Page Content button.
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13.      The progress bar will display the progression of the reindexing.
14.      Once complete, the Reindex process displays the time taken to index your site's pages.
Now, we need to reconfigure the existing Product Search widget to search for content other than products.
15.      Go to Content → Page & Templates → Theme Layout.

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2. Reconfigure Product Search widget to include content pages

The Product Search widget needs to be reconfigured to include static content. 

  1. Navigate to Content → Page & Templates → Theme Layout.

  2. Click the Theme Layout option.
17.     

  1. Locate
the
  1. the Product Search widget and click Edit. In our example, the Product Search widget is under Zone:HeaderColumn2.
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18.      You should now see a new field

  1. Locate Static Content Search
. Select
  1. and select 'Include Static Content Search
from the drop-down list. This feature will expand your customers' search capabilities.
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19.      Click on the Titles tab, where you can
  1. '. (Note - if you are creating a search for content pages only, then select 'Static Content Search Only'.)

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  2. Click on the Titles tab and change the search results headings as required.
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20.      Select Save,
  1. Click Save and if
you have
  1. your site
set to
  1. is in Page Preview mode,
then
  1. click Publish to effect the changes on your site.
21.      You can customise the zero

3. Customise the Page Content Search Result template (optional)

Customise the zero results returned message in the

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Page Content Search Result Template.

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  1. Navigate to Content → Page &
Templates →
  1. Templates → Other Page & Templates.
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22.      Click to Edit the new

  1. Click Edit for the Page Content Search Result widget.
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23.      Open the

  1. Click the Notification tab and type in your new message. 
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  2. Click Save, and if you have your site set to Page Preview, then click Publish
your
  1.  to effect the changes.
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4. Configure the Product List Title widget

  1. Navigate to Content → Page & Templates → Products → Product List.
25.      The

  1. The Product List Title widget should be at the top of the Product List page. Click
to
  1. Edit.
26.      This widget will now display a new field on the General Options tab:  

  1. The Static Web Pages Found Message
. 27.      You can leave the message as the default, or alter it to reflect the language and tone of your site
  1. displays text relating to search results for content pages. In the default message '{0} web page(s) found with contents related to your search', '{0}' is the number of pages found.
    Change the message to suit the tone of your business if required
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28.      Click

  1. Click Save at the bottom of the page. If
you have
  1. your site is set to 'Page Preview',
then select Publish from the top right-hand side of the page to propagate the changes to
  1. click Publish to effect the changes on your site.
29.     

5. Test the reconfigured search for content

  1. Perform a search to see what results are returned. You
can see it uses
  1. should be able to see the message from the Product List Title widget in the results display.

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30.      Or, if

  1. Or if your search returns no results, ensure your "no results" message from the Product Search widget's notification tab
(Step 22)
  1. displays.
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31.     
  1. If we click on the Search Suggestions message highlighted in red in the image from Step 29, the system will bring up a list of pages in our site that contain the keyword.
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32.     
  1. We can confirm we have those Articles in our system by navigating in CMS to Content → Articles. Click Edit.
33.      We can see that we have three articles with our keyword "article" in their heading.

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Minimum Version Requirements


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4.14.00


Prerequisites


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Content other than Products and Categories


Self Configurable


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Yes


Business Function


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Searching


BPD Only?


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Yes


B2B/B2C/Both


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Both


Ballpark Hours From CV (if opting for CV to complete self config component)


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Contact CV Support


Ballpark Hours From CV (in addition to any self config required)


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Contact CV Support


Third Party Costs


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N/A


CMS Category


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