Search

The search module provides a search function throughout your entire app, users can find content using key phrases, and you can customize the searchability of content on your app and create filters to categorize your content.

Installation

You can install this module in your app in the following places:

  • App's Home Menu ✓
  • App's Side Menu ✓

You can find the search module in the Essentials category.

essentials

Drag and drop the module into your home or side menu to install it.

search

Duplicability

This module can be duplicated in several sections in your app ✓

Main Features

The Search module comprises 4 features, set as default.

1.) Search

A powerful search function that can navigate all over your app, using ElasticSearch, and shows results instantly.

search

2.) Advanced Search

A feature to add additional search filters, customized based on which content you want your users to find.

3.) Keyword Search

Allows users to search through your app using key phrases.

Configuration

1.) Once you installed the module, by dragging and dropping it in the home or side menu, hit the gear icon to configure the settings of the module.

icons

2.) Here you can rename the module and choose an Android and an iOS icon for it.

gear

3.) Here you can change the background image displayed when you open the search module.

background

Which looks something like this:

background

4.) Next, you can choose the button icon and the icon and button color.

style

As shown below:

searchcolor

5.) Enter the title and the description of the search page.

title

Which will be displayed as follows:

description

6.) You can enable text search, which will allow users to search the entire app using a certain key phrase, you can also assign the search to function using a certain criterion (Area, Country, Product)

hints

7.) Here, you can select where your keyword will be searchable in your app, so if you check group, the search results will be displayed from groups, check all if you wish the search to be in every section of your app.

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Set up a Search Filter

1.) Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on setup under the filter option.

2.) You have the option to include up to three filters, these filters can be assigned to any elements like channel, group, booking, or event so that when people search for these filters, the elements can come up.

searchcriteria

3.) When you go back to the channel from the side menu.

channels

4.) Hover over the channel and click edit.

editchannel

5.) You can assign the filter under which this channel will come up.

assignsearch

From the settings, you have the option to include ads in your app, using Google AdMob Module.

Note that you have to install Google AdMob Module first.

Don't forget to click save once you are done.

Don't forget to click save after you finish.

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