Investigate Global Search functionality on the site

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Stakeholders have been requesting a global search to be added to the site to ensure an easier experience to users looking for specific information at any of our multiple pages.

Per Wagtail documentation here, it seems that adding a search option to a Wagtail site should be pretty straightforward. It is also possible to fully customize the HTML site to be exactly what we need.

The investigation on this ticket is to go through the documentation and estimate how much effort would be required to add this search, keeping the index updated with constant updates on the site and ensuring that is easy to maintain.

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➤ Genevieve Baldassano commented:

Hey Ramon Ramos i see this is done, what was the finding here?

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➤ Ramon Ramos commented:

Genevieve Baldassano findings revealed that the effort needed to implement this feature would be not so heavy:

• Search box and results layout by design team (similar to blog tag listing)
• Markup and feature integration by eng team
• Periodical or automated index rebuilding after batch importing or migrations.

Straightforward indeed.