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I think wild apricot is brilliant but I have one major problem which is a major flaw at present.

I need to have search functionality within my member only pages. At present Wild Apricot only has search functionality within the directory of members not for the member content itself.

 While it is possible to download a google or similar widget, these will only work on the public pages not within the secure member only pages.

 

Please, please Mr Apricot can we have  proper search function that works thoughout the site

Brian

www.totallyexpat.com

Let's devote this particular thread to search of member-only content.

What do others think?

What kind of content would typically be searched? (webpages only?)

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

I TOTALLY agree with this request.  We need text search feature within WA member only area.  We tried to use the free google text search but it seems to be unable to see or get to the member only area pages.  Could be a set up issue, but it would be better if WA built a tool which they could make available on the webpages.

Hi,

Yes, this is an absolute necessity for us!  We will be launching our Wild Apricot site in about six months, so I am hoping that this issue will be built into the system by then.  

For groups that post a lot of members-only educational content - which is the reason they're members - Wild Apricot will not be able to compete for more professional non-profit/not-for-profit users unless you incorporate this.

If you can get this working, I think that you will have much bigger market, as your site does so many other things.  We are working on a work-around solution right now, and we think we've found something that will work for a little while: where we just post the tables of contents in the public blog area and try to stick the important words in the title, but then link to the full listing in the members only section.  However, I'm not sure that this is going to get people where they need to go, and it only works for that particular section - not other things we may want to put in the members only area.

 So this is really, really important!!!  (Please make it available in the next 6 months!)

 Thanks!