topic How to override the LiveSearch html? in Alfresco Forum

How to override the LiveSearch html?

wybrand — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 18:19:08 GMT

Hello.

I want to set LiveSearch.templateString by defining a custom searchbox (see the code below).

But LiveSearch.templateString is not a member of the SearchBox class. It is defined as a separate class, when creating SearchBox (see https://dev.alfresco.com/resource/docs/aikau-jsdoc/SearchBox.js.html).

Is there a way to set templateString of LIveSearch using an override of SearchBox??

Greetings,

Wybrand.

define(["dojo/_base/declare",
        "dojo/text!./templates/my-livesearch.html",
        "alfresco/header/SearchBox"],
       function (declare, template, SearchBox) {
         return declare([SearchBox],{
           postMixInProperties: function my_searchBox__postMixInProperties(){

             // How to set LiveSearch.templateString since this is not a member of SearchBox?? 

           }
         });
       });

Re: How to override the LiveSearch html?

afaust — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 20:38:48 GMT

Due to nesting, there is no way to set the templateString in LiveSearch. But you could override the postCreate of SearchBox to customise the nested LiveSearch widget after its creating - that is what I did in a project a few years ago.

Re: How to override the LiveSearch html?

wybrand — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:55:58 GMT

Great idea. It worked.

Thx,

Wybrand.