By ceci123 on

Hello everyone.

i have created a view called 'customsearch' and have exposed filters to search the view. Its currently working but I would like to display just the search form and NOT show ANY results by default.

I have tried changing the settings to Show None under Views -> Filters -> Search: Search Terms -> On empty input ->Show None but nothing happens.

To summarize: how to display just the search form and NOT showing the results by default?

Thank you.

Ceci

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chris pergantis’s picture

chris pergantis commented

I had a similar idea the other day. I did find that my understanding of the "Search Terms" filter were wrong. It literally means to search 'for' terms. It searches the terms in the nodes that are present for the individual words (terms) that are entered. If exposed it provides an opportunity for the user to ask if any of the nodes available for this search contain say "book" or "magazine" or "newspaper". The "show all" option is the same but with an "and" as the operator. I think this filter steps through all of the nodes content, body, and node information to locate matching nodes to present based on simple term entries.

I looked at a post the other day that mentioned the function you are looking for is in Views 3. Which version of views are you using? Either Views 2 or 1 does not have this function.

In Views 3 it is called "input required" and is located at the default level and above in the Views UI as "exposed filter style". (its on the left near the bottom of that column of settings)

Chris Pergantis
Founder/Chairman/President
Accelerated Design Inc

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ceci123 commented

I will try your suggestion. I think I am using views 2.

Thank you cperg!

Ceci