Configuring Hawksearch box widget

In this article you will find:

Goal

This document provides information for configuring the ‘Hawksearch box’ widget.

Configured Sitefinity connector - Connector: Activation

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Navigate to a Sitefinity page on which you have placed a ‘Hawksearch box’ widget
Open the widget designer
1. From “Where to display search results“ select a search results page (page with ‘Hawksearch results’ widget)
2. Select a Search Index
Publish the page

This feature is only available for the Vue SDK

Navigate to a Sitefinity page on which you have placed a ‘Hawksearch box’ widget
Open the widget designer
Go to the Advanced section
1. Input the search box configuration settings in the Data field.
  {"_searchBoxConfig":{"reloadOnEmpty":false,"redirectOnEmpty":false,"redirectToCurrentPage":false}}

The configuration fields have the following usage:

reloadOnEmpty - Refresh the search results with an empty keyword, but keeps all other facet selections. This is available if a results widget is dropped on the same page.
redirectOnEmpty - Redirects to the results page even if the search field doesn’t have a keyword
redirectToCurrentPage - If the set redirect page is the current one, forces the page to reload

Navigate to a Sitefinity page on which you have placed a ‘Hawksearch box’ widget
Open the widget designer
1. Go to the Advanced section
  1. Input the configuration settings in the Data field.
    {"_suggestionItem":{"linkField":"link","titleField":"title"}}