Configure global search

Civic Platform provides a search engine to find information globally throughout the software. Users enter search criteria and Civic Platform displays results in a global search page grouped by information type.

You can configure search to define the maximum amount of records to return in a global search and how many result rows to display in a group results list page. Within each group, a user can filter, page through, or sort through the result information.

The global search function works against indexed content in the Civic Platform database. To ensure the most accurate and up-to-date search results, configure a batch job to regularly index the Civic Platform database.

To configure global search

Set the necessary FID(s) and standard choices.
Create a global search index batch job. See Create global search index batch job for complete details.