• Top Text: Appears next to the vertical line as the title of the search section.
• Top text Color: Colors can be selected for this title.
• Main Text: Sits below the top text as an instruction for patrons.
• Enable search by: If the checkbox is ticked the ‘enable search by’ dropdown will appear. This allows patrons to search by :
  • Everything – all fields of the works are searched.
  • Title – searches in the title only.
  • Title starts with – searches for a specific keyword as the first word of the title (omits words such as ‘the’, ‘a’ etc).
  • Author – searches on all names of the author (eg searching ‘Christie’ will present author’s with first or last name as ‘Christie’).
  • Subject – searches on the subject fields of a work.
  • Series – searches for works in a series.
  • ISBN – searches for the ISBN (10 or 13 digit).
• Placeholder – text which appears inside the search box – this is replaced by user’s typing.
• Background – the background color of the search section can be changed here.
• Background Cover Image – any images can be uploaded using the ‘select photo’ button. Operators should consider copyright when sourcing images. For best results images should be 1290×560 pixels, extremely large files will not upload.

NOTE: Advanced search is opened by clicking on the magnifying glass on the main menu. For details of how to configure Advanced Search please refer to Features.