Search forms can help find products that satisfy a set of criteria. For example, a search form might help find recipes that contain substring such as Cayenne, or recipes that are tagged with a keyword such as Cajun.
You build search forms with the form handler class atg.repository.servlet.SearchFormHandler
. This handler uses the search criteria to return items from one or more repositories, and one or more item types from a given repository. SearchFormHandler
is a subclass of atg.repository.servlet.GenericFormHandle,
so it inherits properties and handler methods common to all form handlers.
Note: Some ATG applications might provide subclasses of SearchFormHandler
.
The SearchFormHandler supports the following search methods: