Form builder

Click the Build Search Form... button in dtSearch Web Setup to build a search form to use with your site.  You can make as many search forms as you want for each site. After dtSearch Web Setup has generated a search form, you can use an HTML editor to edit the form to fit into your web site.  

Under the File tab of the Form Builder, you can select the name and location of the search form to create.  When you create a search form, Form Builder will generate a set of files containing JavaScript, CSS styles, help, and other components of the search form.  For details on these files, see Generated files.  To avoid cluttering your other web site folders with these files, you may want to generate the form in its own subfolder of your web site.  For example, if you generate the search form in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\SearchForms\form1.html, then the other generated files will also go in the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\SearchForms folder.

Template
dtSearch Web provides several alternative templates you can use to create your search form.  For each form you create, select a template from the Template drop-down list to specify the type of form to generate.  Examples of each type of template are available at https://support.dtsearch.com/support/forms.

The following templates are included with dtSearch Web:

IFrames.  The IFrames template is a search form with one IFrame for search results and a second IFrame for retrieved documents.  

No Frames.  The No Frames template does not use frames or IFrames for anything.  After a search, the search results will open in a new tab overlaying the search form, and when users click on retrieved documents, the documents will appear in another new tab overlaying the search results.

Two Frames.  The Two Frames template uses two resizable frames, one for the search form and search results, and a second for retrieved documents.

Three Frames.  The Three Frames template is similar to the Two Frames template, but it adds a separate frame for the button bar with the "Next Hit", "Prev Hit", etc. buttons.  This template is most similar to the layout used in older versions of dtSearch Web.

Logging
Check the Log searches and Log document access boxes to enable logging of searches from this search form.  For more information on logging options, see Logging.