How to get the forum search to sort by 'Relevance' by default

[bigbear83]

This must be a very simple edit somewhere but for the life of me I've spent hours trying to figure this w/o any results. Could someone kindly point me in the right direction?

Basically this is what I'm looking for-

When a user makes a search on the forums from the main page (not the advanced search page)



The search results always defaults to sort by "Date - last update"



I really need this to sort by "Relevance" by default ... is there any way to do this at all? What am I missing here?

I suspect this must be a very simple edit somewhere that I am totally missing here but I'm not entirely sure what it is...

I'm running the latest vB 5.2.1

Any help I can get regarding my issue here would be greatly appreciated! Many thx in advance

[Mark.B]

This would require code customisations to achieve, there is no way to do this in the default software.

It would be worth asking at www.vbulletin.org, the modification and customisation site.

[glennrocksvb]

You can do this via template hook. Create a template hook at footer_before_body_end hook location with the following template code.

<script>
(function($) {
    $(window).on('load', function() {
        $('#searchForm').on('submit.searchform', function() {
            var $searchJson = $('#header input[name="searchJSON"]'),
                decodedJson = decodeURIComponent($searchJson.val()),
                parsedJson;

            try {
                parsedJson = $.parseJSON(decodedJson);
                parsedJson.sort = 'relevance';
                $searchJson.val(JSON.stringify(parsedJson));
            }
            catch(e){}
            
        });
    });
})(jQuery);
</script>

If you don't know how to create a template hook, follow one of my mods in my signature below. The instructions should be similar.

[bigbear83]

Glenn Vergara sweet! Thx a ton for that ... works a treat!