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Edit or Delete Search Engine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Search Engine will help your visitors find a particular page or subject

that is within the site.

         

 

There, undoubtedly, will be times when a Search Engine will need

to be changed in some way, or even deleted. 

 

 Let's take a look at all our options.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   1.  Generally, we use a variety of tools when editing.  These tools are always seen at the top of the screen, and are available for use on

        every page of your site, with one exception.  The Form Building Icons can only be used when working on a Form.

 

      • For a complete description of all the editing tools, see the page, A Quick Look at the Editing Icons and What They Can Do,

                    or click here.                                 

  

 

 

If you have placed a Search Engine that is seen on every page of your site,

and you need to edit or delete it, go to the page where it was first created. 

 

If you don't remember where you first created the Search Engine,

go to any page and do a right click in the Search Engine itself.  

 

The Search Engine Properties flyout will appear, seen here. 

 

 

Then, click Info.  The Element Info flyout will appear, seen below. 

 

Look at the Origin Page.

 

 We see the Search Engine was created on the Admin page.

 

 

Now, you can go to the Admin page, and edit or delete the Search Engine following the instructions below. 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                   

To edit or delete a

Search Engine,

go to the page

where it was originally placed.

 

In Edit Mode, right click in the Search Engine. 

 

The Search Engine

 Properties flyout

will appear, seen here.

 

  2.  The Search Engine flyout offers information and editing choices.  Let's click on each subject to see what they offer.

 

      • Info:  This offers specific information about the Search Engine, such as the Origin of the site, the Placement (whether it is shown on all pages, or not), who created the Search Engine, etc.  

 

      • Hide:  It allows you to hide the Search Engine when it is in Published Mode.  This is especially helpful if it is not ready to be seen by a visitor.  Also, it's handy to use if a Parent site has content being pushed to a Child site, but doesn't want it seen on the Parent site.

 

      • Opt-In is not available for a Search Engine.

 

      • Delete:  If you click on this, a "Warning" pop-up will appear, as seen below.  Click OK  to go ahead and delete the Search Engine.  Click Cancel  to avoid deleting. 

 

 

      •  Move to:  The arrow allows you to move the Search Engine box to different areas on the page.  The choices offered are:  Up, Down,

                     Move Last.  These choices can be used in the current panel.  Other choices offer to move the Search Engine to panels outside the

                     current panel, such as, to the Main panel, the Header, the Footer, or to the Menu panel.

 

      • Search Engine Elements:  When you move your cursor to this selection, a secondary flyout will appear, as seen below. The reason why

                     the items are grayed out is because each Custom Search element can only have a  single type of each item.  You can have a single

                     search button, a single preview or a single textbox. So, if you already have one of those in your Custom Search, the other options,

                     shown below, will appear grayed out.
 

 

 

 

      •  Properties:  Click it, and it will take you to the Page Elements wizard.  The wizard's tabs are seen below.  You can go through each

                     tab and change certain Search Engine components.

 

 

 

   1.  Content Type:  Describes the element which, in this case, is a Search Engine.  If you want to change the element to a different

         content type, you cannot do that here.  To change the Search Engine to another element, you will need to delete it first. See "Delete"  

         information stated above.

 

   2.   Placement:  You can change how the Search Engine will appear, whether on all pages or just one page.  Most Search Engines appear

         on all pages. You cannot change the Search Engine's panel location.  To review Placement, click here.

 

   3.   Details:  All the selections on both the Common Properties and the Styles tabs can be changed.  To review these options, see the page, 

         Search Engine; Custom, or click here.

 

   4.   Publish Dates:  Both the Start and Stop Dates can be changed.  To review Publish Dates, click here.

 

   5.   Visibility:  You can change who is allowed to see the Search Engine.  To review Visibility, click here.

 

   6.   Publishing:  This is for Parent sites only.  Content can be required or optional for any child sites. To review Publishing, click here.

 

   

 

Sometimes, you might need to edit in only one of the Page Elements tabs. 

Just go to the top of the screen, and click on the tab you need. 

Do your editing, and then click Finish . 

No matter which tab you are on, the Finish button will save all your changes,

and bring you back to your working page. 

You don't have to go through each tab of the Page Elements wizard to leave the wizard.

 

 

 

  
 

   To Edit or Delete the Search Engine Results page:

 

   1.   After making  a right click in the Search Engine, its Properties flyout will appear. 

 

      • To delete the Search Engine Result, select Delete Search Engine (Custom). 

 

      • To edit the Search Engine Result page, select Properties.  

 

 

    2.   The Page Elements wizard will appear, see the tabs below.  Choose the Details tab.

                                                                                                                                         

 

 

   3.   And the Details window will appear with its two tabs.

 

      •  If you currently have the Search Engine Results appear on a separate page, but now want the Search Results to appear on the same page,  you need to use the dropdown arrow on Select Results Page to select None.   

 

      • To do other editing, just follow the instructions given on the page Search Engine Custom, or click here.