Hosted Search Page
Every Opensolr Index with site search comes with a complete search page at https://search.opensolr.com/YOUR_INDEX_NAME. Opensolr runs it: there is nothing to build, host or update. Share the link, or put the page inside your own website with two lines of code. See one live: https://search.opensolr.com/opensolr.
It is there for the indexes that have site search, the ones with a WebCrawler tab in the Control Panel, whether you fill them by crawling your site, by Data Ingestion, with the Drupal module or with the WordPress plugin (what your index needs).
Open it
- Open your index in the Control Panel and go to the WebCrawler tab.
- Click Search UI in the Quick Access bar. The page opens with you signed in as its owner, so the Query Elevation buttons show when that feature is on.
Visitors who open the link directly pass a short human check first. On your own website, where the page is embedded, there is none.
What is on the page
- Web and Documents tabs: your pages on one, your PDFs and office documents on the other (more).
- Language and locale: keep only one language or one country version (more).
- The search box: suggestions while typing, the photo button to search by image and the ? button with the search operators.
- AI Hints, sorting, Fresh and AI: the AI Hints button, which writes a short answer from your pages when the visitor clicks it, the sort list, the Fresh switch and the AI switch.
- Facet sidebar: the filters you choose, such as category, price or date (Facet filters). On a phone it opens with a Filters button.
- Results: your words highlighted, the picture of each page, Read buttons for the AI Reader and a Did you mean line for a misspelled search.
- View buttons: full width, numbered pages or endless scrolling, light or dark (more).
The chat bot of your index can show on this page too, when you switch it on.
What you set in the Control Panel
- Search Tuning: how results are ranked.
- Facet filters: which filters the sidebar offers.
- Query Elevation: pin or hide pages for chosen searches.
- Search Page Password: keep the page private.
- Search Embed Code: put the page on your website.
- Query Stats: what visitors search, what finds nothing and what they click.