In this article you will find:

Overview

The Hawksearch box widget comes with a ReactJS powered front end which has the latest features exposed to the Hawksearch service.

Goal

This document provides information on setting up the Hawksearch box widget using React. Basic usage is covered in Selecting React or Vue Getting started and any additional information may be found here.

Prerequisite

Steps for setup

1. Open the selected widget template file

2. Uncomment, if necessary, the part of the markup designated as React template. This should include a div element with attribute data-component="react-search-box" or data-component="react-search-box-bootstrap". In It should be an empty div element. Comment the part marked as Vue template. Only this step is required for enabling the component, the rest of the steps are optional.

3. Modify the data-client-guid attribute to set the Hawksearch client ID.

4. Modify the
   The React template should look like this:
   

   Code Block

   // React template if (!SystemManager.IsDesignMode) { @Html.Script(Url.WidgetContent("assets/build/js/vendor.bundle.js"), "bottom", false) @Html.Script(Url.WidgetContent("assets/build/js/main.js"), "bottom", false) @Html.StyleSheet(Url.WidgetContent("assets/build/css/vendor.css"), "head") @Html.StyleSheet(Url.WidgetContent("assets/build/css/main.css"), "head") @Html.StyleSheet(Url.WidgetContent("assets/dist/react-hawksearch.css"), "head") @Html.StyleSheet(Url.WidgetContent("assets/dist/react-hawksearch-override.css"), "head") } <div data-component="react-search-box-bootstrap" data-client-guid="@Model.ClientId" data-hawksearch-tracking-api="@Model.TrackingUrl" data-hawksearch-base-api

   attribute to set the Base API URL.Modify the

   ="@Model.HawksearchBaseAPI" data-hawksearch-search-api

   attribute to set the Search API URL

5. Modify the data-json-params attribute (JSON object, param_name: param_value) to set additional search parameters, specific for the widget instance.

6. Modify the data-index-name attribute to set index for the widget search requests.

7. Modify the data-search-page attribute to set the page to which the search should redirect.

   ="@Model.HawksearchSearchingAPI" data-hawksearch-autocomplete-api="@Model.AutocompleteUrl" data-json-params="@Model.Data" data-search-page="@Model.ResultsUrl" data-index-name="@Model.Index" data-current-culture="@Model.CurrentCulture"> </div> <script data-translations="react-translations" type="application/json"> { "Narrow Results": "@Html.HtmlSanitize(Html.Resource("NarrowResults", "HawkWidgetsResources"))", "Search Results": "@Html.HtmlSanitize(Html.Resource("SearchResults", "HawkWidgetsResources"))", "Search Results for": "@Html.HtmlSanitize(Html.Resource("SearchResultsFor", "HawkWidgetsResources"))", "Sort By": "@Html.HtmlSanitize(Html.Resource("SortBy", "HawkWidgetsResources"))", "Enter a search term": "@Html.HtmlSanitize(Html.Resource("EnterKeyword", "HawkWidgetsResources"))", "Quick Lookup": "@Html.HtmlSanitize(Html.Resource("QuickLookup", "HawkWidgetsResources"))", "Clear All": "@Html.HtmlSanitize(Html.Resource("ClearAll", "HawkWidgetsResources"))", "Clear": "@Html.HtmlSanitize(Html.Resource("Clear", "HawkWidgetsResources"))", "No Results": "@Html.HtmlSanitize(Html.Resource("NoResults", "HawkWidgetsResources"))", "Loading": "@Html.HtmlSanitize(Html.Resource("Loading", "HawkWidgetsResources"))", "You've Selected": "@Html.HtmlSanitize(Html.Resource("YouSelected", "HawkWidgetsResources"))" } </script>

8. Save, re-build and refresh the page.

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