The CMSSearchDialog control allows users to enter search expressions. Users can optionally specify the search scope (where to search) and search mode (how to search). To display the results of the search, you need to connect a CMSSearchResults control. The CMSSearchDialog control is not connected to a data source — it only communicates with users. The controls use the SQL search engine, which utilizes standard queries to find results in the Kentico CMS database.

 

The control passes the search expression through the page's URL using the searchtext query string parameter.

 

The portal engine equivalent of the CMSSearchDialog control is the Full-text search -> SQL Search dialog web part.

 

The following topics are available to help you familiarize yourself with the CMSSearchDialog control:

 

•Getting started - contains a step-by-step tutorial that allows you to learn the basics of using the control

•Configuration - describes and explains the properties that can be set for the control

•Structure - continues the tutorial from Getting started, shows a more advanced example of how the control can be configured and demonstrates what individual template properties affect

•Appearance and styling - lists which CSS classes can be used with the control and how its appearance can be modified