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LesaBlack-0b967
Community Member
19 days ago

Search Section titles

I've turned on the ability to search in my Rise course, but it won't search the Section titles.  It will only search Lesson titles and content within the lessons.

I also noticed when I publish a .pdf the Section titles aren't listed with their lessons either. So if my outline had:

  • Day 1 (Section)
    • Introduction (Lesson)
    • Daily definitions (Lesson)
    • Application (Lesson)
    • Summary (Lesson)
  • Day 2 (Section) 
    • Introduction (Lesson)
    • Daily definitions (Lesson)
    • Application (Lesson)
    • Summary (Lesson)

Then the .pdf prints out with all the content smashed together like this:

-Introduction (Lesson)

-Daily definitions (Lesson)

-Application (Lesson)

-Summary (Lesson)

-Introduction (Lesson)

-Daily definitions (Lesson)

-Application (Lesson)

-Summary (Lesson)

This makes edits from our partners very difficult. These seem like related issues, so I was wondering if anyone has run into these disappearing Section issues? Does anyone know away to fix this, or should I need to submit a Rise bug/fix?

  • Hi LesaBlack-0b967,

    Thanks for reaching out!

    The described behavior is the expected functionality of the search feature in a Rise 360 course. It can only perform searches in lessons and not section titles. This article explains this feature in more detail:

    The PDF output is not meant to be interactive, so you'll find the menu structure followed by the lessons printed in the order they appear in the course. Would you mind sharing how you wanted the lessons to appear in the PDF? Did you want them to be separated by sections?

    • LesaBlack-0b967's avatar
      LesaBlack-0b967
      Community Member

      As far as the searching, that article you linked is what made me thing we were doing something wrong because it seems to be incorrect in saying we can search for Sections (See attached highlights from the article).

      For the published .pdf, we'd love it to still have the outline at the top but then show Section > Lesson > Lesson > Section > Lesson> Lesson> and so on below where the content is. This helps for when sections have similarly titled lessons and helps you know where you're at in the document.

      In the meantime, we've redesigned our Rise course to include a sort of breadcrumb on ttop of the content for each lesson that says Section title - Lesson title. Now they can search for the main topics (Sections) throughout the course. This makes it a little wonky with the screen reader because it reads the lesson title twice since that is also at the top of that page, but it meets the greater need. 

      Thanks for your quick response and I hope our work around helps others.