Custom Search

What is a custom search?

A custom search will allow visitors to quickly search a sub-set of the college web site. For example, an area with a large number of documents such as the Student Financial Services directory.

When is a custom search appropriate?

A custom search is most useful when there is a large number of documents; when those documents are highly detailed, or otherwise difficult to browse.


Required steps:

1. Request a sub-collection from the Web Development team. The Google Mini will be modified to create a sub-collection, which will take a day or two.
2. You will receive a name for the project sub-collection; for example, the Center for Black Music Research sub-collection name is "cbmr".
3. Modify the code example below, replacing [SUB-COLLECTION_NAME] with the sub-collection name for your project.
4. Copy the modified code into the Source window of a page.

Note: this will not replace the site-wide navigation in the upper-right corner of all college pages.


Code example:

<form name="gs2" method="GET" action="http://search.colum.edu/search">
Search:<br /><input type="text" name="q" size="25" maxlength="256" value="">
<input type="submit" name="btnG" value="Go" style="margin-top: 2px;">
<input type="hidden" name="restrict" value="[SUB-COLLECTION_NAME]">
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="site" value="columbia_main">
<input type="hidden" name="output" value="xml_no_dtd">
<input type="hidden" name="client" value="columbia_main">
<input type="hidden" name="lr" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="proxystylesheet" value="columbia_main">
<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="">
</form>