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title: "Configuring Global Search"
slug: "configuring-global-search"
updated: 2025-06-12T17:32:35Z
published: 2025-06-12T17:32:35Z
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# Configuring Global Search

## How to enable Global Search

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To enable Global Search, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to**Site Configuration → Site Configuration → Portal Page Elements**
2. Click **New Element**.
3. From the **Type** dropdown, select **Search**.
4. Enter a **Name** for the search element.
5. Click **Save Settings** to apply your changes.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/3a63e0a8-1221-4570-aaa1-d43f9b95a612/Images/Documentation/portal-page-element.png)

An image highlighting the creation of a new portal page element for global search

All Portal Page Elements you create appear as a subsection within the configuration menu under the name you assigned. While you cannot delete Portal Page Elements once created, you can make them inactive. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Click the **Edit** icon next to the element you want to deactivate.
2. Click **Make Element Inactive** on the toolbar.

Inactive elements are listed in a separate tab, where you can edit and sort them on the page just like you do with active elements.

To finalise the configuration of Global Search, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to **Site Configuration → Site Configuration → Portal Page Elements → {Element Name}** using the name you provided earlier.
2. Click **Settings** next to the Search element.
3. In the **Search Modules** section, check the boxes for each module you want to include in Global Search.
4. Choose whether to **Show Users** in search results.
5. In the **# of Results per Page** field, enter the number of results to display per page in the Search Results window.
6. Click **Save Settings** to apply your changes.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/3a63e0a8-1221-4570-aaa1-d43f9b95a612/Images/Documentation/configure-global-search.png)

An image highlighting the configuration for global search