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Search Engine in Your Community

Gradual has a global search engine in each of its communities for users to find results for terms or keywords

Updated over a week ago

Each Gradual community has a search engine available to all users, whether they are logged in members or just visiting your community. This allows users to search the entire environment for keywords or phrases, and find people, content, events, discussions, and more, related to what they're searching for.

User Experience

Users can enter a word or phrase in the search bar at the top of the community. The system will display and show results for all pieces of the community with that exact word or phrase.

Space-restricted assets, or items within a secret club, will only appear to those who are part of the space or club.

The search function will return relevant results from:

The search function will also show the total count of this word or phrase in the community, and then of each item type.

Visitor Search Bar

Visitors to your community (users who are not logged in) can now use the search function to find relevant forum posts, content, events, and more.

Events, content, forum posts, etc. that are marked as 'All Members' or 'Restricted to Spaces' will not display in the visitor or public search as users must be logged in to see these items.

The People section is blocked from public search for users who are not logged in; visitors cannot search for members or details of members from their profiles.

If the community is set to private, visitors will not be able to see the search bar or function, and must log in to search.

Notes & Considerations

  • The system will order the results by relevancy:

    • Results with the search term in the title or the member's name

    • Results with the search term in the member's company or job title

    • Results with the search term in the subtitle

    • Results with the search term in the description

    • Results with the search term in the member's bio

    • Results with the search term in the agenda

    • Results with the search term in the speakers or authors

    • Results with the search term in or as the tag

  • This search engine does not identify or suggest terms when the entry is misspelled

  • The URL will include parameters such as the query string and type

    • This is great if you need to guide users to all results with that term or phrase

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