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Search forms are available only for custom made indices (or indices of type "database"). The default indices (Tripal Entities, Website and Gene Search) have predefined Drupal blocks that can be found at Structure > Blocks or /admin/structure/block.
After your database tables get indexed, you can build a search interface for them. Note that search blocks for node, entities, and genes are configured automatically and cannot be customized.
You can choose to expose all table fields or a subset of fields for searching.
The admin page for building search blocks is at http://[your-tripal-site-domain]/admin/tripal/extension/tripal_elasticsearch/forms.
You can configure the settings for each field in the search block. Expanding the field's dropdown menu will allow you to change the title, description, field type, weight, and URL link.
The URL link region of each field will let you configure URL links for that field. Linked fields can be static (https://www.ncbi.nim.nih.gov) or dynamic (organism/[genus]/[species]).
The field type available to users in the search form. textfield indicates a text input box. select indicates a dropdown menu box. If this field contains more than 50 unique values in the database table, only the textfield will be available.
If you choose a select field type, you must provide key|value pairs to build the dropdown box. The keys should be the true values in your database table, and the values can be anything that you want to show to your users. key|value pairs must be placed within brackets. For example, [key|value].
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