Website search improvements

We’ve long had an effective search facility on the website for current news, Insights, events and other pages.  Last week there was an opportune moment to invest in an important additional feature to support our institutional knowledge: Search for our archive of several hundred pdf files

This is significant, in that the entire archive is now indexed and searchable, most notably ‘What We’ve said‘ since 2011, all reports and pdf attachments, plus historic editions of Insights and NewsForum.

If you’re researching particular subject in our field, there’s a good chance we’ve said something useful about it. The available search facilities are best summarised on the updated Resources page. 

Did you know? There’s a search option at the top of every page: on desktops just to the right of the menu – the little magnifying glass 🔍︎ symbol – and on mobiles & tablets, the search box is always visible at the top of the screen. Search boxes like this appear next to document archives. Note that there’s a ‘live search’ preview as you type.

Search results are ordered by most relevant (number of matches to search terms), with priority given to recent publications, but there are a myriad of options we could choose. Try it by clicking on this search for Tall Buildings, and let us have your feedback.:

https://www.londonforum.org.uk/?s=tall+buildings