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Overview

The Navigation

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The Site Search skill uses Google to search your website and return the top results.

The Site Search skill uses Google to search your website and return the top result. The top results found are presented displayed as external links button with a description and an associated image is anyan internal link or external link card so the user can navigate to that content.

Info

Note: Default UI (a.k.a Auckland Theme) does not support internal link cards.

This skill is:

Limitations

Skill Demo

<demo>navigation-demo.mp4

Configurations

Provide the following information in the Navigation Site Search Skill configuration screen in Digital DNA Studio. See Adding Skills to your Digital Person for detailed instructions:

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Type

Description

GOOGLE API KEY USED TO CONDUCT SEARCH

(required)

TEXT

Enter the API Key generated from Custom Search JSON API page.

CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINE GENERATED ID

(required)

TEXT

Enter the search engine ID generated from google Programmable Search. For detailed instruction see section Creating a Programmable Search Engine for your Site.

RESPONSE WHEN SHOWING RESULTS

TEXT

Output phrase when showing results. The default is 'Ok. Here you go.'

RESPONSE WHEN NO RESULTS FOUND

TEXT

Output phrase when no results are found. The default is 'Sorry, I've had a problem looking up an answer for that.'

INTERNAL LINK OR EXTERNAL LINK
(required)

DROPDOWN

Internal link opens the links in the same tab (used with a widget).

External link opens links in a separate tab, can be used on widget and default UI.

IF INTERNAL LINK, NUMBER OF RESULTS THE DIGITAL PERSON SHOULD RETURN

TEXT

The number of internal links that can be displayed can be configured to up to four, whereas the number of external links is restricted to one.

Creating a Programmable Search Engine for your Site

To create a Programmable Search Engine:

  1. Sign into Control Panel using your Google Account (get an account if you don't have one).

  2. In the

Sites to search section

  1. Create a new search engine page, add the pages you want to include in your search engine. You can include any sites you

want

  1. wish to, not just the sites you own. You can include whole site URLs or individual

pages

  1. page URLs. You can also use URL patterns.

  • The name of your search engine will be automatically generated based on the URLs you select. You can change this name at any time.

  • Select the language of your search engine. This defines the language of the buttons and other design elements of your search engine, but doesn't affect the actual search results.

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    2. Click Create.

    3. Select the search engine name from the

    Edit Search Engine dropdown and click Setup

    1. Control Panel.

    2. Copy the Search engine ID.

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    Note

    IMPORTANT
    The Google Custom Search API key allows only a certain number of searches a day, as determined by your administrator. For more information, see https://support.google.com/googleapi/answer/7035610.

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