« Vmware tools hosed up the mouse | Main | SELinux and loading dynamic Apache modules »
June 24, 2005
Add a company search box to Opera
I work for Tickets.com and we use a tool called Call Tracking to, of all things track stuff :-)
Either way, frequently I'm bouncing between cases, using only the case number. The main Call Tracking page has a form with a box to enter this, but it's a bit of a pain to have to keep that page open, and to switch back to it. Then it hit me, Opera probably would allow me to add it as a search dialog on my personal bar. Although it's a bit risky (because Opera doesn't support the changes, and upgrades may whack it), it sure was possible :-)
Opera 8 uses a search.ini file to define searches (if you have localized settings it'll be C:\Documents and Settings\YOURNAME\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\search.ini). You have to choices...you can edit it by hand:
http://www.schrode.net/opera/search/search_ini.html
Or you can use the free Opera Search.ini Editor (which is what I did to make sure I didn't hose up the file).
After that, right-click on your personal bar and select your search engine (please note, if you don't choose a keyword, you will not be able to select it in that list). You can see how I slected it in the image above.
(One more note, replace the value in the GET query string you would normally see in your address bar with %s...that is all I did to get our simple Call Tracking URL to work. E.g. "http://.../search.cgi?target=%s" versus "http://.../search.cgi?target=87711".)
Posted by alan at June 24, 2005 2:38 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.lonelywind.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/64