Homepage Search widget
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- UpdatedAug 3, 2023
- 2 minutes to read
- Vancouver
- Service Portal Designer
Add a search bar to your home page. You can use this base system widget as-is in your portal or clone it to suit your own business needs.

Instance options
Field | Description |
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Presentation | |
Title | Name that appears above the search bar. For example "How can we help?" |
Short description | A subtitle that appears below the title. |
Typeahead search | Controls the appearance of the search bar. Use a comma separated list inside curly braces to add style details to the search bar, for example {title: 'Search', color: 'blue', size: 'lg'}. For more information on which style options you can add, see the instance options for the Typeahead Search widget. |
AI Search | |
Search Application | Defines search experience settings for the widget, such as the search engine, search results limit, and suggestions limit. By default, the widget uses the same search application configuration as the portal, but you can override this configuration at the widget level. For more information on defining a search application configuration, see Defining search application configurations. |
Search Results Configuration | Defines how search results are displayed after using the widget. By default, the widget uses the same search results configuration as the portal, but you can override this configuration at the widget level. For more information on defining a search results configuration, see Define a composite dataset. |
Disable All Suggestions | Option to disable search suggestions. |
Placeholder | Text that appears in the search box before the user enters anything. By default, the placeholder text is How can we help?. |
AI Search Source Filter | Content that portal users can search on, including tables in your instance or external data sources. For more information, see Defining search sources. |
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