# Advanced Header Search

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/advanced-header-search/194093
**Category:** Theme component
**Tags:** official, header-search
**Created:** [June 16, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advanced-header-search/194093 "2021-06-16T18:03:28Z")
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### Author: ![Tris20](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tris20/32/264639_2.png) [@Tris20](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tris20)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2025, 8:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advanced-header-search/194093/75 "2025-08-27T08:12:59Z")

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> [@Ethsim2](#):
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> the button you’re assigning the icon to will on click direct to the host and path as per admin settings, but query as per what the user has put in the search header at the time 🙂

Exactly this 🙂

When we commissioned this development the goal was to enable staff in our discourse to search multiple platforms from one search bar. Now users can search our Discourse, and Stackoverflow, and Sharepoint etc from the Discourse searchbar.

In this example “external search” would be stackoverflow or sharepoint. It doesn’t technically search those platforms, rather it redirects the user to the search results on those platforms.

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