How do I enable the Internal Search reporting in Sitecore Analytics using the SXA search components?

Question

We are using Sitecore 9.0 and the SXA search components.

I have found a few articles that state that you need to register the button click event in the search page controller to turn this functionality on: Enabling the internal search in the sitecore analytics

Since we are using the built-in Sitecore SXA Search components, how should this be implemented? Do I need to override the search javascript files and add custom code in there to register the event?

Answer 1

This is built-in to SXA already and should be working if you are using the OOTB SXA search results component. It works using the RegisterSearchEventAttribute MVC filter on the SXA SearchController which checks for a query string parameter for the search term. If one exists then it parses the value and will register the Search Page Event as long as the Tracker is initialized correctly.