Content type / Search

Search bar (config)

Search_Bar_Config_001

technical

What this is used for

The Where to / When / Where from / Who's going search bar. Contentful holds the labels, CTA copy, the selectable PIM tags, which steps are compulsory, the departure-airport list and its per-destination blacklist, and how far ahead the calendar opens. Reused on the homepage and results page. Availability and prices are live at render; the searchable destination catalogue comes from the PIM travel areas.

How you use it

Settings for the search and 'help me choose' tools — the labels and options a visitor sees, not the search results themselves.

Fields you can fill in

Fields kept in step automatically

Used by

content types

Entries of this type are listed by their Internal name. That is the name you and everyone else will see when searching for the entry, so make it descriptive.

Fields you can fill in

Field	What goes in it	Notes
Internal name internalName required	Short text	—
'Where to?' label whereToLabel	Short text	—
'When?' label whenLabel	Short text	—
Earliest departure (days from today) leadTimeDays	Whole number	How many days after today the calendar starts accepting departure dates. 0 means a shopper can search for a holiday leaving today (today's behaviour). 3 means the first three days are greyed out. This is the SEARCH window only — it does not decide what can be booked. Maximum 365.
'Where from?' label whereFromLabel	Short text	—
Departure airports departureAirports	A list of short texts	One row per airport: CODE\|Display name\|Group heading — e.g. "LHR\|London Heathrow\|London". Add "\|group" as a fourth part for the row that stands for the whole group ("LON\|Any London airport\|London\|group"); its airports are then shown indented beneath it. ORDER HERE DOES NOT MATTER — the site always shows London first, then the other groups alphabetically, and the airports inside each group alphabetically. Leave the list EMPTY and the site keeps its built-in ten-airport list and records that it is doing so in the fallback register.
Airport / destination blacklist departureAirportBlacklist	A list of short texts	BRD9_04. One rule per row: AIRPORT\|DESTINATION. The airport is not offered once the shopper has chosen that destination — "MAN\|MLE" hides Manchester when the Maldives is selected. Use * as the destination ("BFS\|*") to hide an airport everywhere. The destination is the code the where-to picker uses, which is the travel area's IATA airport code. An empty list means nothing is blacklisted, which is how the site behaves today.
'Who's going?' label whoLabel	Short text	—
Search button label ctaLabel	Short text	—
Selectable tags (from PIM) tags	A list of short texts	—
Compulsory steps compulsorySteps	A list of short texts	Choose one of: whereTo when whereFrom who
Special occasions (linked to TBX offers) specialOccasions	A list of short texts	—
Offer a rooms selector roomsEnabled	Yes / no	Global switch for the whole platform. Off means the "Who's going?" panel has no rooms stepper and every search is for a single room. Turn it on only when the reservation system can price a multi-room holiday. Leave it off if you are unsure — it is the setting the site ships with.

Fields kept in step automatically

These appear greyed out, or not at all. They are filled in from another system, so anything typed here would be overwritten.

Field	What goes in it	Notes
Component key (sitemap catalogue ID) componentKey required	Short text	—

Where this gets used

These content types link to this one. Editing an entry of this type changes every one of them that points at it.

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