How to access the Search Results template? - Sitefinity - General Discussions

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Posted by Community Admin on 19-Jan-2011 00:00

First of all, a big thank you goes to Telerik for giving us easy access to widget templates. This has been a huge help to me and my team!

We are running Sitefinity 4.0 and are wanting to change the layout for the search results. I don't see any template of this kind in Design -> Widget Templates, and I've also tried looking in App_Data\Sitefinity\WebsiteTemplates\DefaultTemplate\ControlTemplates but couldn't find anything there as well. Where can I find an example of a template for the Search Results widget? Or better yet, where can I find the exact template that is used by Sitefinity as a default when displaying Search Results?

Thanks,
Ann

Posted by Community Admin on 19-Jan-2011 00:00

Hello Ann,

Here is the template of the public SearchResults control

<%@ Control Language="C#" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI" TagPrefix="sitefinity" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Services.Search.Web.UI.Public" TagPrefix="sfSearch" %>

<sfSearch:SearchBox ID="topSearchBox" runat="server" />

<sitefinity:SitefinityLabel id="resultsStats" runat="server" WrapperTagName="p" CssClass="sfsearchResultStatistics" Text="<%$Resources:SearchResources, SearchResultsStatusMessage %>" />

<asp:Repeater ID="resultsList" runat="server">

<HeaderTemplate>

<dl class="sfsearchResultsWrp sfsearchReultTitleSnippetUrl">

</HeaderTemplate>

<ItemTemplate>

<dt class="sfsearchResultTitle"><a runat="server" href='<%# Eval("Link")%>'><%# Eval("Title") %></a></dt>

<dd class="sfsearchResultSnippet"><%# Eval("Summary")%></dd>

<dd class="sfsearchResultUrl"><a runat="server" href='<%# Eval("Link")%>'><%# Eval("Link")%></a></dd>

<dd class="sfsearchResultHighLighter"><%# Eval("HighLighterResult")%></dd>

</ItemTemplate>

<FooterTemplate>

</dl>

</FooterTemplate>

</asp:Repeater>

<sitefinity:Pager ID="pager" runat="server" />

<sfSearch:SearchBox ID="bottomSearchBox" runat="server" />

You can use LayoutTemplatePath property of the widget to map the template.

Regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 19-Jan-2011 00:00

Thanks for your prompt reply, Ivan. This was exactly what I was working for. I just pasted the code into the UI to create a new template for search results (list) and then applied this template to my search results widget.

Thanks again,
Ann

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