What am I missing in 'add search engine to Chrome'?

bruce_williams

@bradley_sauln has an excellent blog article on adding Onshape help search engine to chrome.  It looks like it is working -  'h' and tab brings up  "Search Onshape Help"  then I enter 'extrude' but find nothing.  It appears the whole link is appended within the search. It returns "Your search for "extrudehttps://cad.onshape.com/help/index.htm" returned 0 result(s)."

What am I missing?

bradley_sauln

The most common error is with the url entered into the search engine settings page. Make sure you are entering in:

https://cad.onshape.com/help/index.htm#search-%s

the "-%s" is a very important addition that tells chrome where to insert your query. If you have done this and are still having an issue please share a screenshot of the 'manage search engines' settings page.

bradley_sauln

The most common error is with the url entered into the search engine settings page. Make sure you are entering in:

https://cad.onshape.com/help/index.htm#search-%s

the "-%s" is a very important addition that tells chrome where to insert your query. If you have done this and are still having an issue please share a screenshot of the 'manage search engines' settings page.

Ben_

Do you have a link to the original blog article? 
EDIT found it https://www.onshape.com/cad-blog/tech-tip-fully-maximizing-onshape-help

bruce_williams

@bradley_sauln
Perfect.  I did have the URL wrong (doubled it!)  Thanks for the response and great tip for shortcut for search.

romeograham

Hmm - this only seems to search Onshape help (works fine, too).
I would like to search my Onshape documents from outside Onshape (best would be in Drive). Anyone know if that's possible? Thanks
Romeo

MBartlett21

@romeo_graham392
Try this: https://cad.onshape.com/documents?resourceType=filter&nodeId=1&column=modifiedAt&order=desc&viewMode=0&q=%s

romeograham

That's close! (but doesn't work for me).  What a good idea (I assume you performed a search inside OS, then used the URL to make this...very clever)!
I realized I have to add the view mode (&viewMode=0) after the search term (%s), so this seems to work instead:

https://cad.onshape.com/documents?column=modifiedAt&order=desc&resourceType=filter&nodeId=1&q=%s&viewMode=0

romeograham

Strange - once I made it a URL, it added the "amp;" between the "%s" and the "&viewMode=0" in my original link above. (and we can't edit posts....so ...)

MBartlett21

@romeo_graham392
You should be able to edit it if it hasn't been a day yet. Click the gear icon on the post

MBartlett21

romeo_graham392 said:

I realized I have to add the view mode (&viewMode=0) after the search term (%s), so this seems to work instead:

@romeo_graham392
I don't think it actually matters which order it is
I just copied and pasted the URL that i posted above and it replaces the & with &