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• Stephen

  Posted on Jan 12, 2012 (permalink)

  I need to create a custom search box for the site because the site needs to log the terms that customers are searching for. How can I achieve that? Is it possible to override the button click event for the search box? Thanks.
  
  Stephen

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• Radoslav Georgiev Radoslav Georgiev

  Posted on Jan 16, 2012 (permalink)

  Hello,
  
  Since the search box makes a redirect to the search result page you will not be able to process the click postback event of the search button. The easiest way to achieve this is to do this in the control template for the Search Result control. Here is how you can get the catalog and the query passed to the search result:
  
  1) Open your website in VS and go to ~/Sitefinity/ControlTemplates/Search/SearchResult.ascx.
  2) Modify it as follows:
  

  <%@ Control Language="C#" %>

  <%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Cms.Web.UI" Namespace="Telerik.Cms.Web.UI" TagPrefix="sfWeb" %>

  <%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Search" Namespace="Telerik.Search.WebControls.Admin"

      TagPrefix="sfSrc" %>

   

  <script runat="server" type="text/C#">

      protected void Page_Load()

      {

          var searchResultsControl = this.Parent.Parent;

          string query;

          if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString["SearchQuery"]))

              query = HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString["SearchQuery"];

          string catalogue;

          if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString["IndexCatalogue"]))

              catalogue = HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString["IndexCatalogue"];

      }

  </script>

  
  
  All the best,
  Radoslav Georgiev
  the Telerik team

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