Restricting AjaxSearch to One Section of the Site

How to keep AjaxSearch focused on one parent branch instead of scanning the whole site, and which parameters are easiest to misuse.

AjaxSearch can be narrowed to one section, but it is easy to mix up parents, documents, and exclusion syntax. If the search keeps scanning the whole site, the problem is usually not the concept but the way the limits are passed.

[!AjaxSearch?
  &ajaxSearch=`0`
  &showResults=`0`
  &landingPage=`169`
  &showInputForm=`1`
  &parents=`in:7`
  &depth=`5`
!]

Start with the narrowest possible parent branch and confirm the landing page logic does not re-run search against a broader scope. If exclusions do not work, simplify the call first, verify the positive parent filter, then layer exclusions back in one at a time.

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Passing the Visitor Query into Ditto Search.extender

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Troubleshooting Shopkeeper Cart Recalculation Helpers

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