Question: Search Bar Implementation

[acolchagoff]

Is it possible to implement a search bar that searches the full text of a document? I'm trying to implement an interface that will tell me what pages search results are on so that I can jump directly to those pages.

[avinashjoshi]

+1 for that feature / implementation help

[tonyjin]

We aren't doing active development on this project.

[avinashjoshi]

Okay - I tried to use jQuery's innerText, text() etc, for each page; that always returned empty (even though when logging the page element in console, shows "innerText" property correctly). What am I missing & is there a better way to achieve this?

$('.presentation .crocodoc-page').each(function() {
        var contains = $(this); //Outputs the element with innerText, but when using .innerText, returns empty
        console.log(contains);
    });

[acolchagoff]

@avinashjoshi Just a guess, but I would think because the system loads pages as necessary, a search function would depend on an api endpoint from box. but I guess they aren't doing active development on box view anymore. so I think we might have to do without...

[avinashjoshi]

Ah! I see. I tried other hacks, and they didn't really help. So you are right. Hope at some point they bring search :) - That would be a killer feature, actually.

Thanks @denodster!