Search Types

SiteMaker allows you to choose between three different types of search forms. You can also stipulate which fields are searched. Here they are from simplest to most complex.

Accept one search term, search all text fields

This is the most Google like way to search a data table. As the name implies, one search field is displayed and all text fields in the data table are searched.

Accept a search term for each field

This type of search form displays a search field for each field you allow to be searched. This allows the visitor to do some more creative searching.

Keep in mind the default search logic is OR, not AND. In the screen shot above searching for a state named Alaska as well as putting true in the Original Colony field would return 14 states because of the OR logic. Switching to the AND logic would return no results (since Alaska was not one of the 13 colonies).