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# Searching for services

Customers can search for services in a number of ways:

* The searchbar in the navbar
* The searchbar in the hero section of the index page
* By choosing a specific category from the 'Categories' section of the footer

In each case, the user is brought to the 'search' page, where the relevant search results are displayed in a repeating group. Two differnt constraints are used on the repeating group so that relevant search results are displayed:

* Any field contains
* Category

<figure><img src="/files/W0zZoOqh7PQT5EwVd9gA" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

As can be seen from the image above, both constaints use data in the page URL to search for the correct search results. For example, if the user searches for video in the searchbar (in either the navbar or the hero section of hte index page), the user is brought to the 'search' page and a 'query' is added to the page URL:

<figure><img src="/files/qE4hzYaVAxnN6akHpgke" alt="" width="563"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

If the user were to search for 'video', a URL parameter 'query=video' will be appended to the page URL:

<figure><img src="/files/p33sSPLwSVrxJ6BnvbHf" alt="" width="563"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

The repeating group will search for all services where one of the fields contains the term 'video'.

Similarly, when you choose a certain category in the footer, the user is brought to the 'search' page and a category is appended to the page URL.


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