In principle it installes only the necessary things like the dll and an example config. You have to edit the config file and then set up an xslt or usercontrol which does the search. Please take a look into the documentation (see the project page under the documentation tab or direct: http://our.umbraco.org/FileDownload?id=138)

Think this will explain your questions, if not come back here and post your question details.

hth, Thomas

Thomas,

Thanks for coming back so swiftly. I followed the example in the document and all the files seemed to be in the right places but when I created the XSLT with the example code no macro was created even though the "create macro" box was ticked, so I am currently stuck at that point.

I'm also not sure by what you mean in the example documentation when you say "Add a Search site to your content and add the macro which you created with the xslt..." Add a Search site, I've been looking for a macro to include on a page. What does "site" mean in this context?

Any help would be gratefully received.

Cheers

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

if you got no macro just create a new one:

• go to the developer section,
• right click on macros and select new
• type in a name for the macro
• click the "new" button
• Under "Use XSLT file" select the xslt file you have created

<form action="{LINKTOSEARCHPAGE}" method="GET" id="search">
  <input type="text" id="Query" name="Query" />
  <input type="submit" value="search" />
</form>

    <xsl:param name="phrase" select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('Query')"/>

Hi! And what about if I want to implement this search module with simple text pages. I try to follow you example with Blog Search as you describe in documentation. And get an error.  

I have this markup: 

<form id="header-search" method="get" action="/1280.aspx">
                                            <ul>
                                                <li>
                                                    <label for="main-search" class="viewport-bounce">:</label>
                                                    <input type="text" name="main-search" id="main-search" placeholder="" />
                                                </li>
                                                <li>
                                                    <input type="submit" id="main-search-submit" value="" />
                                                </li>
                                                <li><a href="#" id="close-main-search">
                                                    <img src="/images/search-close.png" alt="Close" /></a>
                                                </li>
                                            </ul>
                                            <div class="suggestionsBoxHeader" id="suggestionsHeader">
                                                <div class="suggestionListHeader" id="autoSuggestionsListHeader">
                                                </div>
                                            </div>
                                        </form>

And this xslt:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon"
xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes"
xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath"
xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions"
xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings"
xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets"
xmlns:ss4u.library="urn:ss4u.library"
exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon
Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions
Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets ss4u.library ">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="phrase" select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('main-search')"/>
<xsl:if test="$phrase != ''">
<xsl:variable name="results" select="ss4u.library:SearchToXml($phrase, 0, 'TextSearch')" />
<h2>Results</h2>
<p>Your search for <strong>'<xsl:value-of select="$phrase" />'</strong>returned <strong><xsl:value-of select="count($results/SearchResult)" /></strong>items</p>
<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="$results/SearchResult">
<xsl:sort select="@createDate" order="descending"/>
<li><a href="{@linkUrl}"><xsl:value-of select="@text" /></a></li>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

And this line in SearchPage template:

<umbraco:Macro Alias="SimpleSearch" runat="server"></umbraco:Macro>

This config:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<SimpleSearch4Umbraco

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

  <SearchDefinition

  name="TextSearch"

  iterationType="IterateAll"

  isDefault="true">

    <DocumentType

    alias="TextPage"

    category="TextPage"

    includeChildNodes="false"

    testNodeName="true">

      <Property

      alias="tP_Content"

      comparisonType="String"

      comparison="Contains" />

      <Property

      alias="tP_Title"

      comparisonType="String"

      comparison="Contains" />

    </DocumentType>

  </SearchDefinition>

</SimpleSearch4Umbraco>

Hi Thomas,

as mention above i have used 

<formaction="{LINKTOSEARCHPAGE}"method="GET"id="search">
  <inputtype="text"id="Query"name="Query"/>
  <inputtype="submit"value="search"/>
</form>

But the i think i am confused about linktosearchpage format. i tried many different formats but it always gives me "the page could not be found". should it be sth like /tcbase/teacommerce/SubmitForm.aspx or sth like {umbraco.library:NiceUrl($category/@id)}

thks -

Frmt

The LINKTOSEARCHPAGE should be the url of the page with the search macro in it. So if you have a page "search" under your root it woud be "/search/". How this url is generated is your decision. I.e if you have a defined search page you can use

 {umbraco.library:NiceUrl(1234)}

where 1234 is the id of your search page or you can link via hardcoded url like "htttp://www.yourdomain.com/search/"

hth, Thomas

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