Set Up CMS Content Search in an LWR Site

In enhanced LWR sites, visitors can search for CMS content published from enhanced CMS workspaces. Visitors can also search for content within the Rich Content Editor and HTML Editor components, as well as within page title metadata. Use the Search Bar and Results Layout components to add the search functionality to your enhanced LWR site.

Required Editions

Available in: Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience

Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions

Applies to: LWR sites

User Permissions Needed
To customize an Experience Cloud site:	Be a member of the site AND Create and Set Up Experiences OR Be a member of the site AND an experience admin, publisher, or builder in that site

Visitors can search only indexed content, so after you publish fresh content in your site or in the connected CMS workspace, rebuild the index. In Experience Builder, navigate to Settings | Search, and then click Rebuild Index.

CMS Content Search isn’t available for Government Cloud organizations.

Note Searches that contain partial keywords don’t return search results. However, if a user enters a misspelled word in the Search field, CMS Content Search attempts to correct the word and provides search results for records that contain the corrected words.

Search results can only be shown on a standard Search page, so to use the Results Layout component, you must first create the search page.

In Experience Builder, click the Pages menu on the top toolbar, and then click New Page at the bottom of the menu.
Select the Standard Page type.
Select the preconfigured Search page and click Next.
Enter a name and URL for the page, and then click Create.
From the Components panel, drag the Search Bar component onto the header section of the page. When you add the component to the header section, CMS content search is available across all site pages.
To open the properties panel of the Results Layout component, drag the component from the Components panel onto the page, and click the component on the canvas.
From the properties panel, make sure the Results Source field displays the CMS Content option.
Preview and publish your site.