Standard search listings can be built using existing attributes (vocabularies) in the CMS taxonomy (e.g. a news listing, a grants listing, a search of all publications in a site section). To use other (non-existing/new) attributes/vocabularies, additional custom work is required.
Currently the Search listing content type/template is only available to Site admins and Admins so search listings for sites using the content.vic.gov.au CMS must be built by the SDP team - even very simple ones such as News listings. CMS editors and approvers can use the Content collection component in the Landing page content type for similar functionality. However, the content collection will only display the top 9 results; there is no pagination (TBC).
Live examples
Examples of custom search listings on vic.gov.au include:
Grants and programs - with custom filters: target audience, status and topic
Victorian Honour Roll of Women - with custom filters: category, induction year, field of expertise, location
Family violence recommendations - with custom filters: category, department/agency and status
Emergency recovery resource portal - with 8 custom filters: section, resource type, recovery environment, subject, audience, owner and recovery environment
Information Safety Entity list search - uses a CSV to display organisation data in a responsive data table
Standard vocabularies (in content.vic.gov.au)
Existing attributes vocabularies available in most content types are:
topic (subtopic to come)
department
content category
grants audience, grants status (only available when grants content type used)
tags (content audience)
organisations (to come)
language (to come)
Read about our standard vocabularies
Our core content types are landing page, publication, news, grant, event.
Search listing display options
Search listings display as a single-column page only (no side menu or other sidebar info).
Results listing page layout variants:
default or simple - see the Ripple design system guide on the results listing
results simple - example: 150 years: school profiles (includes URL, summary, date updated)
results default - example: (with icons) Grants and programs (includes grant audience, whether open or closed, value)
(name TBC) results minimal - example: Departments and agencies (includes name with hyperlink)
cards (looks like content collection)
cards using news content type - example: Victims of Crime news
cards using events content type - example: What’s on at the Shrine
cards - using custom profile content types - example: Aboriginal Honour Roll
Process for requesting an SDP custom search listing
Tell us your requirements by completing the search listing requirements template.
Submit a Platform enhancement request with the requirements document attached.
An SDP product owner will advise of our capacity and potentially provide a quote and timeline.
Search listing content type - difficulties
After some improvements are made, we plan to make some templates available for cloning and use by [Approvers or super-approvers TBC].