ExtraSearch Plugin is method to place ExtraSearch Catalog - Custom Catalog to the articles or to ExtraSearch layouts.
1. Enable Plugin.
2. Put following code into an article.
{extrasearchcatalog=tablename,pagelayout,|catalogitemlayout|,showpublished,filter,columns,|order by|,force Itemid}
- tablename - Catalog Table name
- pagelayout - the name of the layout to organize page
- catalogitemlayout - the name of the layout to organize items
- showpublished - true / false (also accepts: "showpublished", "showunpublished", "showany" or "1", "0", "2" any value but 1 and 0 will be treated as "showany")
- filter - "field1=value and field2=value", or leave it blank if no filter needed. For "or" operator use | example: field1=1|2
to get parameter from url query use "$get_parameter" method. - columns - show result in a table mode with number of columns, 1, 2, or 8 etc.
- order by - field to sort records by.
- force Itemid - used to set parameters and to add to the links.