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algoliasearchZendeskHC
This JavaScript library allows you to replace the default search of your Zendesk Help Center by Algolia. Algolia is a hosted full-text, numerical, and faceted search engine capable of delivering realtime results from the first keystroke.
To browse through the crawler, visit the crawler/ folder.
When you install our Zendesk integration, it creates what we call a connector in your Algolia account. You can access it with the left sidebar in your dashboard or by following this link.
This connector will every day take your public Help Center articles and put them inside an Algolia index. In most cases, this should be enough to have an up-to-date search.
However, if you'd rather have it updated right now, like when you add a lot of support articles, you can manually trigger a full reindex. On this page, just click the "Reindex" button in the top right corner. A few minutes later, your search index will be updated.
Once your data has been extracted to Algolia, you need to update your Help Center theme in order to replace the search feature by Algolia.
Here is a full breakdown of the available options for the JavaScript library:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/algoliasearch.zendesk-hc/2/algoliasearch.zendesk-hc.min.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/algoliasearch.zendesk-hc/2/algoliasearch.zendesk-hc.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
algoliasearchZendeskHC({
applicationId: '<YOUR APPLICATION_ID>',
apiKey: '<YOUR SEARCH ONLY API KEY>',
subdomain: '<YOUR ZENDESK APPLICATION NAME>',
//
// Optional configuration:
//
indexPrefix: 'zendesk_', // or your custom <INDEX_PREFIX>
baseUrl: '/hc/', // the base URL of your Help Center
poweredBy: true, // show the "Search by Algolia" link (required if you're on Algolia's FREE plan)
debug: false, // debug mode prevents the autocomplete to close when trying to inspect it
color: '#158EC2', // main color (used for links)
highlightColor: '#158EC2', // highlight color to emphasize matching text
responsive: true, // responsive instantsearch page
autocomplete: {
enabled: true, // is the autocomplete feature enabled?
inputSelector: '#query', // the DOM selector to select the search box
hits: 5 // the number of suggestions to display
},
instantsearch: {
enabled: true, // is the instantsearch feature enabled?
paginationSelector: '.pagination', // the DOM selector for the current pagination (to hide it)
reuseAutocomplete: false, // do not add a search input for the instant-search page
selector: '.search-results', // the DOM selector for the results container
tagsLimit: 15 // maximum number of tags to display
},
instantsearchPage, // function to check if we're on the search page
translations: {} // translation strings
});
</script>
It is definitely possible that, when you install the application, it doesn't exactly display as you expect.
No worries, these are usually just a few conflicting rules between your design and our integration.
You might also just want to change the look & feel of the search.
Either way, just follow the following steps:
<style> tag after the <link> tag you've already added in your Document Head template and add your custom CSS hereExample:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/algoliasearch.zendesk-hc/CURRENT_VERSION/algoliasearch.zendesk-hc.min.css">
<style>
.aa-dropdown-menu {
background-color: #ccc;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/algoliasearch.zendesk-hc/CURRENT_VERSION/algoliasearch.zendesk-hc.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
algoliasearchZendeskHC(/* ... */);
</script>
Note: You might have some trouble trying to customize the autocomplete menu because it automatically closes when you try to Inspect it.
Just set debug: true to avoid this behaviour.
This library supports out of the box Help Centers with multiple languages.
The results sent to the user are always limited to the ones in the currently selected locale.
Some constant strings like the ones used in the sentence "12 results found in 1ms" need to be translated. The library already supports these locales:
If you want to support another locale, please help us by [opening an issue on GitHub][locale_issue].
If some translations don't fit what you want, you can change them using this syntax:
translations: {
placeholder: {
de: 'In unseren Help Center suchen',
'en-us': 'Search in our Help Center',
fr: 'Recherchez dans notre Help Center'
}
}
For reference, here is the list of all the translations for the en-us locale:
translations: {
categories: {
'en-us': 'Categories'
},
change_query: {
'en-us': 'Change your query'
},
clear_filters: {
'en-us': 'clear your filters'
},
format_number: {
'en-us': function (n) { return n.toString().replace(/\B(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, ','); }
},
filter: {
'en-us': 'Filter results'
},
nb_results: {
'en-us': function (nb) {
return this.format_number(nb) + ' result' + (nb > 1 ? 's' : '');
}
},
no_result_for: {
'en-us': function (query) {
return 'No result found for ' + this.quoted(query);
}
},
no_result_actions: {
'en-us': function () {
return this.change_query + ' or ' + this.clear_filters;
}
},
placeholder: {
'en-us': 'Search in our articles'
},
quoted: {
'en-us': function (text) { return '"' + escapeHTML(text) + '"'; }
},
stats: {
'en-us': function (nbHits, processing) {
return this.nb_results(nbHits) + ' found in ' + processing + ' ms';
}
},
search_by_algolia: {
'en-us': function (algolia) { return 'Search by ' + algolia; }
},
tags: {
'en-us': 'Tags'
}
}
We do not index community forums for now. If you're using them, you'll probably want to disable instantsearch by setting enabled: false and just use the auto-complete feature.
Since we're providing a front-end search, and we can't securely know which access a user has in Zendesk's templates, we have to limit our indexing to public articles only.
A public article is not a draft and its access policy is everybody.
If you're in such a scenario, we recommend you to disable instantsearch by setting enabled: false and just use the auto-complete feature.
The package.json holds multiple scripts:
build:css: Compiles the CSS files to dist/algoliasearch.zendesk-hc.cssbuild:docs: Extracts the documentation from this README.md to ../docs/documentation.mdbuild:js: Compiles the JS files to dist/algoliasearch.zendesk-hc.js and dist-es5-module/*.jsbuild: Launches all 3 previous buildsclean: Removes dist/ and dist-es5-moduledev: Launches build and server, and watches the files to rebuild them if neededlint: Lints the JS filesserver: Runs a simple HTTP server pointing to dist/test:coverage: Runs test with coverage enabledtest: Runs the test suitebuild:js, build:css, build and dev can be passed a NODE_ENV environment variable.
If set to production, it also creates minified files and map files.
server accepts a PORT environment variable to change on which port it will run.
We're considering any contribution and PR, please go ahead!
This project is under the MIT License.
FAQs
Algolia Search for Zendesk's Help Center
The npm package algoliasearch.zendesk-hc receives a total of 9 weekly downloads. As such, algoliasearch.zendesk-hc popularity was classified as not popular.
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