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Follow these steps to configure the article content search functionality for your site:
1. We need to turn on Content Search first: in your CMS, go to Settings → Feature Management → Content
2. Locate Content Search and click Configure.
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3. Turn on Enable Content Search Feature.
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4. Set the schedule to a few minutes in the future, and click Save and Exit.
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5. Select Advanced Settings from the CMS side-menu.
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6. Select Lucene Search Settings.
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7. Select the Index Settings tab.
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8. Tick the checkbox to enable indexing.
9. While you're there, let's enable Partial Word Searches. You do that by ticking Perform Partial Word Searches and selecting the Search Type: Scoring Boolean Query, Constant Score Query, and Matching Terms.
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14. Once complete, the Reindex process displays the time taken to index your site's pages.
Now, we need to add reconfigure the existing Product Search widget to your site's layoutsearch for content other than products.
15. Go to Content → Page & Templates → Theme Layout.
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18. You should now see a new field Static Content Search. Select Include Static Content Search from the dropdown drop-down list. This feature will expand your customers' search capabilities.
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31. We can see that we have three articles with our keyword "article" in their heading.
32. If we search for a partial word that is not in a title, the system will also return results.
33. If you hit return on the Search Suggestions instead of clicking the "n web pages found" message, then the system will return a list of web pages that contain the keyword and a list of products that match it.
In this example, 1 web page and no products match the keyword.
34. You can click on the web page results to display the static content.
35. If your keyword matches products and static content, then searching and pressing return will give the following results.
36. In our example, we have Product Suggestions turned on in the Product Search widget, so the product search returned product names that are spelled similarly to our keyword.
The static content search facility will allow your customers to search on content other than products. Explore the search results and tinker with the widgets detailed in this knowledge base article until you are confident with the results.
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