Kentico CMS allows you to perform index-based searching through all documents in the Kentico CMS repository. For this to work, you need to have a search index created. Go to Site Manager -> Administration -> Smart search and choose to create a New index. In the following dialog, enter the following details:

 

•Display name: My website

•Code name: MyWebSite

•Index type: Documents

•Analyzer type: Standard

•Stop words: Default

•Assign index to website MyWebSite: enabled

 

Click OK. You will be redirected to the index's editing interface. Switch to the Index tab and click Add allowed content (). In the following dialog, enter /% into the Path field and click OK. Switch to the Sites tab and make sure that the index is assigned to My website. Switch to the Cultures tab and choose the default culture of your site (typically English - United States).

 

Finally, switch to the General tab and Rebuild () the index. Once the index gets rebuilt, the documents on the site are prepared to be searched.

 

 

Now go to Visual Studio and choose to create a new web form in the CMSTemplates\MySite folder. Name the page SearchPage.aspx and check the Select master page box. Choose the CMSTemplates\MySite\MyMaster.master page in the next dialog.

 

Add the following directive to the beginning of the page code:

 

 

Now enter the following code inside the <asp:content> element of the newly created page:

 

 

This adds a header and the appropriate user control that will provide search functionality and display results. Notice that the code name of the previously created search index is specified as the value of the Indexes property of the user control.

 

Switch to the code behind and add a reference to the CMS.UIControls namespace:

 

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You also need to change the class definition so that it inherits from the TemplatePage class:

 

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Save the changes.

 

Now we need to register the new page template. Go to Site Manager -> Development -> Page templates, select the My website category and click New template. Create a new page template with the following values:

 

•Template display name: Search page

•Template code name: searchpage

 

On the General tab of the page template, please set the following:

 

•Template type: ASPX page

•File name: ~/CMSTemplates/MySite/SearchPage.aspx

 

Click Save and switch to the Sites tab. Assign the new page template to My website.

 

Go to CMS Desk -> Content, select the root and click New. Choose to create a new Page (menu item) using the My website/Search page template and name the page Search. Click Save. Click the Down arrow in the main toolbar until you move the Search page to the end of the list.

 

 

Select the new /Search page and enter PC into the Search for box and click Go.

 

 

When you click a search result, you will be redirected to the appropriate document.