Consolidating Various Search Boxes To A Single Search Field

[skauntey]

Hi

 

I have over 5 different search boxes on my site and each box is linked with a separate result page. To put this in perspective, five result pages are projects, consultants, properties, applicants and suppliers linked with their relevant search box on a separate page.

 

Not only this looks confusing but also it consumes 5 different data pages.

 

Also two search strings (out of 4) are common among them - Title and City. 

 

I was wondering if there is a way to consolidate them in to a single search box and user can specify separately what he/she is looking for out of those 5 choices, perhaps using a dropdown, which will subsequently open search in a result page of user's choice.

 

What I meant is instead of 5 search boxes and 5 result pages. I would like to go for one search box and 5 result pages.

 

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

 

Best

 

 

[LWSChad]

Use a virtual field that passes a parameter; perhaps [@searchCriteria]

Follow that with a dropdown and pass this parameter; maybe [@searchType]

 

Then include [@searchType] in the path for where to go after a search.

 

 

[@searchType].html?searchCriteria=[@searchCriteria]

[skauntey]

Hi Chad

 

I know I am late in responding but thanks for this. It is a clever solution.

 

Best,