Hi team,
Happy New Year!
Currently in the process of improving our search experience and need a little help.
When using Flex Block X, is there a way to get it to display ‘No results’ or a custom message when no search results are found?
In addition to the above, is there also a way to show in numeric form how many search results are found? ‘Your search returned ## results’ – that sort of thing.
Thank you for your time.
Hi,
Only the loop elements can display the no results message.
In case you want to create your own module for search, you can use the module builder and use the flex loop builder to display the results.
Unfortunately, there is no option to display the number of results on the search page right now.
Hi Calin,
Thank you for the prompt response as always. I had a play with the module builder, and though it’s very useful, I went back to Flex Block X due to its ability to filter by category.
Perhaps one for the suggestions box; it would be handy to display ‘no results’ on a Flex Block that doesn’t return results.
Hi,
If you want to have the possibility to use modules but also to manually set the category in the filter, then you can use the flex block builder. This block uses the module you made with the module builder and provides all the settings you need as a flex block does.
Hi Calin,
Just tried the flex block builder, which as you say does have the filtering options. Unfortunately, it still doesn’t let me display a ‘no results found’ message.
Thank you for the tip nonetheless.
Hi,
The message is currently displaying only in the loop blocks. My suggestion was in case you want to use a module you made with the module builder and have the option to filter the results by the category you want.
Thank you!
Thanks for the clarification, Calin.
Suggestion still stands, would be great if the developers could add an option to display the message on flex blocks as well as loop blocks.
Hi,
I added this to our improvement list.
Thank you!
You’re a star. Thank you.
NEWSPAPER – VERSION: 12.7.5
new: External image support for Image info box;
new: Load more option(ajax) to Categories/tags list shortcode;
new: Custom no post message on all Flex blocks;
new: Popular taxonomy option to Popular category shortcode;
new: Category siblings option to hide all the categories when no siblings;
You rock, team. Such a welcome addition, already implemented and working great.
Have a lovely weekend!
Thank you! We truly appreciate your feedback.
