How to create a Categorized Search Page
How to create a Categorized Search Page
A categorized search page has a drop-down list of categories on the left-hand end of the search box, see above. Categorized Search Demo
Each category can have features (e.g. faceted search, field search filters) suited to the metadata for the documents in that category.
You need to ensure that ALL files uploaded to an index that includes faceted search or field search contain appropriate metadata.
1. Login to the Search Cloud One Console and Create an Index.
2. Upload some documents into the index.
Repeat above two steps for each index you want to create.
3. From within WordPress Search Cloud One Plugin, create a New Category that is suitable for a categorized Search page:
- Important: the Category Name you create should be short (less than 15 characters) and meaningful, since the Category Name will appear on the search page in the drop-down list control.
- If you want to have a categorized search page only, there is no need to create a shortcut for each category.
- Add appropriate Filters or Facets to the Category.
- Click Add New Category.
Repeat step (3) above for all the Categories you want on your Categorized search page.
4) Create a New Shortcode, select the Categories you want on your search page. Click Save new Shortcode, the Shortcodes list will appear, select your Shortcode and click Copy.
5) Create a Page in WordPress and Paste in the Shortcode, click Update, then click Preview to make sure it works as you expect.
Depending on your WordPress theme and settings the Page name that you entered will normally be the ‘title’ of the page, and will be used as the default URL of the page.
NOTE: Currently the WordPress Plugin doesn’t allow editing the Category Name, if you need to change the name create a New Category and then Delete the old Category.
This demo page was created with the WordPress plug-in, no programming was needed.
It demonstrates the use of filters to narrow the search without having to type a long query such as Title contains (Smith v Cotoco Freezing company) or Date Of Judgment contains (2016/01/21).
Try clicking the filter in the search bar, enter a Date of Judgment of 21 Jan 2016, click Apply.
PDF files were uploaded with custom properties created in Adobe Acrobat called Date of Judgment and Case Title. The files are automatically converted by Search Cloud One to HTML to allow multi-color hit-highlighting.
Try a search for – holden and fashion and ashi – click on the search result to view the document with each word of the search in a different color.
The 20 files in this demo are a small sample donated by Toma Legal Retrieve from their large collection of over 30,000 documents.
Other Search Demo pages
Classics – basic Boolean search
Cars Demo – faceted search