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Multiple customised searchboxes

Add multiple customised searchboxes to different folders in a plone site.

In the ZMI navigate to Portal Skins -> Custom and using the top right dropdown add a page template.
Give it the ID 'portlet_searchbox' and click the add and edit button. Now replace the existing template content with the following:
-  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" i18n:domain="plone"> <body>   <div id="portal-searchbox" metal:define-macro="quick_search"> <form name="searchform" action="search" tal:attributes="action string:/search;" style="white-space:nowrap;"> <label for="searchGadget" class="hiddenStructure" i18n:translate="text_search">Search Site</label> <div class="LSBox"> <input id="searchGadget" tabindex="" name="SearchableText" type="text" size="10" value="" title="Search Site" i18n:attributes="title title_search_site;" tal:attributes="value request/SearchableText|nothing;" class="visibility:visible" />  <input metal:define-slot="path" /> <input class="searchButton" type="submit" value="Search" i18n:attributes="value label_search;" /> <div class="LSResult" id="LSResult" style=""><div class="LSShadow" id="LSShadow"></div></div> </div> </form> </div> </body> </html>
The next step is to create a python script that will determine the location where the searchbox will be searching for content.
In this case the searchboxes will be located in different folders in the path http://yoursite/sites/
Go to Portal Skins -> Custom and create a new Script (python) from the top right dropdown.
Give it the ID of getPath and click the Add and Edit button.
Now replace the existing code with the following:
- # Type: Python script # Name: getPath # Purpose: gets the relevant path info for a department within /sites on a plone website # Author: Flash-fx (www.flash-fx.net) pathInfo = context.getPhysicalPath() # getPhysicalPath splits the url path into an array (or tuple in python). # As all departmental searching will be within /sites/<dept> we only need to # get the third element from the result if len(pathInfo) > 3: # pathInfo[1] is usually the plone instance name # pathInfo[2] in this case is sites # pathInfo[3] will be the folder where the searchbox is used return pathInfo[1] + '/' + pathInfo[2] + '/' + pathInfo[3] else: # should actually error out here but at present it just returns a false value for the template return "false"
Now in any page templates in any subfolders in http://yoursite/sites/ where you want the searchbox to be displayed simply add the following code:
-  <div metal:use-macro="here/portlet_searchbox/macros/quick_search" style="float:left"> <metal:fill fill-slot="path"> <input type="hidden" name="path" tal:attributes="value here/getPath" /> </metal:fill> </div>