How to set up a SiteSearch Results page

• Choose View > Toolbars > Component Toolbars > coolmaps.com advanced.

Select the SiteSearch component and drag out an area on the page that you wish the results to occupy.

The width of the component will determine the width of the results and where the search will wrap its contents. The component height does not really matter because the actual height will depend upon the number of matches for the query.

Make sure there is plenty of room below the component for a long list of results.

Configure the palette -

The following options are available in the component properties table:

Description (Yes/No)
determines whether or not the search results will be displayed with a description field. The description will be the value of the Meta Description tag, or if there is no Meta Description tag it will be the first 40 text characters in the file.

Num of Chars Description
specify how many characters will be shown for the description results.

Description Text
specify header text for the results page.

Keywords (Yes/No)
specify whether or not you want all the search keywords to be shown on the results page.

Keywords Description
specify the header text for the keywords.

Num of Chars Keywords
specify how many characters will be shown for the keyword results.

URL (Yes/No)
the listing of a page will always provide the user with a link to the actual page. This option allows you to display the link url to the end user.

Link URL
(only available when the URL option is set to yes) this allows you to specify whether or not displayed result URLs will be hyperlinked.

Found Text Style (No/Bold/Italic/Strong/Emphasis)
set the appearance of the keyword as it is found in the title, description, and/or keywords.

Found Text Color
enter a hexidecimal number to set the color of the keyword as it is found in the title, description, and/or keywords.

Not Found
specify the page which is shown when the search yields no results.

Tips from component jedi Peter Sklar:

Can the SiteSearch be told to ignore certain pages?
Click on object HTML for the area you would like ignored and add #site search ignore#. You could also put #site search ignore# inside a comment tag.

Does SiteSearch display Meta Description information in results?
Yes! If you place inside the Head HTML with the Meta Description tag, this description will show up on the search results page.