Question

How do you get the seach box in the top bar to seach all webs by default?

Environment

-- ChrisCooper - 17 Aug 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or have a question you asked answered by someone - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status is in a drop-down list below the edit box.

Modify the search form in your TWiki web's WebTopBar. Add a hidden field named "web" with value "all" to the form named quickSearchForm. Here is the complete (but untested) else section of the IF:

else="<input type=\"text\" class=\"twikiInputField\" name=\"search\" value=\"\" size=\"14\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"web\" value=\"all\" />"

-- PeterThoeny - 18 Aug 2006

Works Perfectly, Many thanks!

-- ChrisCooper - 18 Aug 2006

I would like to modify my WebTopBar as well to have it search in all public webs. However, I can't seem to edit the WebTopBar topic as the wiki can't find it! However, I can see a the following files in the directory structure:

./data/TWiki/WebTopBar.txt ./data/TWiki/WebTopBar.txt,v

Yet the topic doesn't exist! Here are all the topics that start with "Web" in my Main web:

# WebAtom # WebChanges # WebHome # WebIndex # WebLeftBar # WebMail # WebNotify # WebPreferences # WebRss # WebSearch # WebSearchAdvanced # WebStatistics # WebTopicCreator # WebTopicList

Arrgh, where is WebTopBar so I can edit it?

-- AlfredvonCampe - 27 Nov 2007

It is in TWiki web: TWiki.WebTopBar

-- ArthurClemens - 27 Nov 2007

I could have sworn I looked in there too; I must have been blind. It's in there alright.

Thanks!

-- AlfredvonCampe - 27 Nov 2007

If you use the (now default) TopMenuSkin you can change TWiki.TopMenuSkinTopBar.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-11-24