Set Up the Narrow Your Search Web Part

To set up the Narrow Your Search web part for community information search results:

Note:
You save your settings separately for the Narrow your search and Related web parts, and they are inherited separately. For example, your branch may set its own elements for the Narrow part, but inherit the system settings for the Related web part. Once you change the settings at the branch level, the branch no longer inherits the system settings.

  1. In the Administration Explorer tree view, open the Profiles folder for the organization, and click the Community tab in the details view.
  2. Double-click Dashboards: Narrow your search & Related searches.

The Dashboards: Narrow your search & Related searches dialog box opens to the Narrow Your Search tabbed page.

Settings on this tabbed page control whether the Narrow your search web part is displayed, and what elements will be available for filtering search results. If at least one element is set to display (set to Yes), the Narrow your search web part label can be displayed in the dashboard.

Note:
Confirm that the first element in the list, DASHBOARD, is set to Yes in the Display column. This element represents the web part itself, and if it is set to No, the entire Narrow web part is suppressed. To set the display, see step 3.

  1. To modify the display of a Narrow element, select the element and click Modify Dashboard Element.

The Modify Search Dashboard Element (Narrow) dialog box appears.

  1. To display the element in the Narrow your search web part, select (check) Display the element.
  2. To display the element’s links when the search results page appears, select (check) Show initially expanded.

By default, all elements are set to display as initially expanded.

Note:
To minimize the need to scroll the PAC search results page, you may want to consider displaying some or all elements as initially unexpanded. The user can choose to expand any element that is unexpanded.

  1. To change the minimum and maximum number of links that can be displayed for the element, select or type the numbers in the Minimum to show and Maximum to show boxes.

The default values are 5 minimum, 5 maximum. The maximum number of links that can be displayed for one element is 99.

  1. If you want to change the default English label for the element, type the text in the Label box. The maximum number of characters is 50.
  2. Click OK.

The Modify Search Dashboard Element (Narrow) dialog box closes.

  1. To change the order in which elements are displayed, select each element and click the up or down arrow icon until these elements are listed in the order you want them.

Tips:
Elements toward the top of the list are displayed before elements lower in the list. The web part label is always displayed at the top of the list, before the individual elements.

  1. Click the Save icon  to save your settings on the Narrow Your Search tabbed page.

If you have set DASHBOARD (the first element in the list) to be displayed without setting any other elements to be displayed, you see an error message. At least one element within the Narrow web part must be set for display in order to display the web part itself.

Note:
To see your changes in PowerPAC, use the Polaris Language Editor (WebAdmin) Reload tool to reload PowerPAC.