To set up a WebSearch search page

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

A small toolbar appears containing coolmaps LinkForm button. LinkForm saves you time by allowing you to browse to the page that will be 'action' page for the form, rather than having to insert it manually in Form properties.

The Form consists of an input field and a submit button. You should use the included LinkForm component to help you create your button.

You can put the search form on any page or in any masterborder.

Here are the steps to adding the search form:

1. Place a Layout Region on the page
2. Check the "Layout Region is a Form" button
3. Set the Form settings Method to GET (instead of POST)
4. Add a Forms edit field - name it "keys" (without the double quotes)
5. Drop the LinkForm component/button on to the page
6. Select the page that will display the results
7. Change the button text as desired

Enabling the Publish Component

1. In the Publish view choose Set-up > Components.
2. Check the box that says "coolmaps.com Search & Tag".
3. Publish as usual.

You must be online when you publish the site as during publish the websearch component goes out to the URL's you have specified, parses them and then inserts this gathered key data into the published Fusion pages that your site visitor will then be able to search. Cool!

Late Breaking Feature: after you publish once, you will be prompted "Do you want to perform the websearch again?" If you say "yes", the component will go out onto the web and retrieve all the urls that you have listed. If you say "cancel", the component will use a cached index of those sites. If you are doing multiple publishes there is no need to spend extra time going out on the web.

The only requirement WebSearch (and SiteSearch) makes is that the visitor's browser is javascript enabled.