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Need Advice About Search Form With Specific/Custom Search Fields

November 03, 2013 2:42pm

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  • #1 / Nov 03, 2013 2:42pm

    msmith29063

    75 posts

    I have a search form—but need to be able to designate the custom channel field that each search field searches:

    * A keywords text field would search Title and three specified custom (text) channel fields

    * A dropdown would search a specified custom (text) channel field

    * And another dropdown would search a specified custom (text) channel field

    Is there a way to do this natively? Or is there an add-on that will help me accomplish this?

    Thank you for your help.

  • #2 / Nov 03, 2013 3:19pm

    Rob Allen

    3114 posts

    Probably not out of the box with the stock search because you’re asking for something quite specialised.

    Low Search has the ability to restrict searches to certain custom fields so worth looking at that - http://gotolow.com/addons/low-search

  • #3 / Nov 03, 2013 8:12pm

    msmith29063

    75 posts

    Does Low Search allow me to specify which search fields correspond to which custom channel fields?

  • #4 / Nov 05, 2013 4:41am

    Ralph

    78 posts

    Well in my totally unbiased opinion you could also try Reefine. It uses lists of links to filter custom channel fields. It doesn’t natively support dropdowns at the moment (I’m still working on this) but you can use some javascript magic to get it to work with them.

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