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Simple Search "You are not permitted to use the search engine." if I am not logged in
Take a look at Members › Member Groups › Guests › Access search utility.
Should solve your problem
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How can I display Low Search form based on selected parameter?
To identify the categories selected in low search, we use low search variable low_search_category
In low search form, You need to select your query {exp:low_search:form query="{segment_3}"}
Use ...
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Can I make a directory that lists by first letter of last name?
You could try http://gotolow.com/addons/low-alphabet as that allows you to group entries by letters (and numbers if you need).
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Search on ExpressionEngine 3 giving image/file URL's as the excerpt
You should check your channel's settings for "Search excerpt". That lets you define a field from which to pull the excerpt.
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How do I change the search frequency time limit?
It is in Member Group settings, you have to enable "Access search facility" first, that will reveal the frequency field. Default in EE5 is 10 seconds.
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Entries tag search:fieldtype=""
To use search parameter in Grid you have to add search parameter in grid fieldtype not in Channel entries tag. You can get more information from below example. https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/...
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Search for multiple custom fields - EE 5.0.x
The standard search features of EE do not support much refinement of the search itself beyond specifying which channel to search within.
If what you want to do is adjust what gets displayed once ...
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Expression Engine Search - EE2
You should probably read up on the Search docs for EE.
That said, EE uses substring matching to return the search results. It's a fairly simple method (using MySQL's LIKE operator) that doesn't offer ...
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Can I make a directory that lists by first letter of last name?
(Is this the same question Making a directory's A - B - C - D etc. links ?)
I had the same issue, and made a solution that might / might not suit your setup, and post it here. I use Profile:edit ...
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What's the best way to search for specific terms in files?
I got some feedback from the developer of Stash (Thanks again, Mark!) on this via Twitter, and he advised not to do it this way.
So I went back to the drawing board. I ended up having our programmer ...
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URLs to entries in search results are wrong - auto_path not working as expected
I figured this out, but the way it works is really really bad!
If you go into Channels > services > Search results you have to specify the URL to that channel's template group, e.g. https://my.domain/...
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Receiving error code that seems to be locking up the Edit Channel Search function
sounds like a php method or class in the calendar module/extension needs updating. I don't have a calendar module to verify this, but in the past when I've ran into this issue it can usually be fixed ...
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stop google from crawling ajax pages with no <head></head>
I would think just putting those pages into a robots.txt file would be effective. Just a plain text file that sits in your website's root directory and includes basic site information (e.g. about ...
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How to search in a custom field with multiple values using exact
You're looking for EE's \W suffix, see the docs:
When doing a “Contains” search, ExpressionEngine is literally just looking for matches on the combination of letters given. For instance using “cat” ...
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Low Search not finding three letter words
The Minimum word length setting has to reflect your MySQL's ft_min_word_len setting. This defaults to 4. Some people, who have complete control over their hosting environment, can change this setting ...
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Low Search and match 3 fields and then return data
Looking at your example code, you've got several filter parameters in your Form tag. And as stated:
these parameters can be applied in two ways: as input fields in a Form, or as hard-coded ...
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Search Form Help
Thanks AllInOne! That sparked a solution. You can do this with some jQuery to add missing the target attribute. After the search form code, put:
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#searchform')....
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Entry Search - Spinning Wheel of Death
This is a bug in 2.7.3, documented here. There's a fix in the bug report as well.
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Solspace Super Search search_in not searching secondary fields
I mentioned this privately, but will mention it here again:
value="" is not a valid attribute for the <select> element in HTML. value="" is used with <option> elements.
You also have ...
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Low Search: find channel entries with relationships to it?
One way that's currently possible, is to use a SQL Parameter to query the entry IDs that have a relationship. The other would be to create a custom filter.
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No results not working
Late to the party here but my guess is because you have dynamic="no" so it will always return a result.
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