Question

I am trying to add an extra parameter to a website search form.

http://jsfiddle.net/n8SVV/

What I have added is the first group of html code (Campus), but this does not appear to interact with the search in any meaningful way.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

If it’s in the form and the search isn’t affected, one of two things is going on:

• The script that handles submissions is expecting the campus to be specified in a different variable (maybe it expects “school_campus” or “campus_choice,” etc)
• The script doesn’t support a campus parameter.

The root cause behind both cases is that you can’t just throw data at a script and expect it to work. What does the documentation for the campus search API say, if such a thing exists?

I don’t even see a campus selection on the destination page, so I’m betting that your issue is the second one.