How administrators can disable the main site search and add a message to the homepage for the attention of users

If you, as an administrator of your control site, need to disable the main site search on your front end website (the website that students use to search for properties), you can easily do this within the control site yourself.

To disable the main site search, click on the Cog icon at the top-right of the screen within the control site to access System Settings:

A drop down will appear with several clickable options available, go to the far-left and click on University Settings:

In the Access section of the page, click on 'No' under the 'Enable Property Search' field:

If you wish you can also enter a message in the next field down labelled 'Disabled Search Message' for the attention of your users, to explain why the search has been disabled. An example of the type of wording might be

The StudentPad search will not be available between 1st January and 31st January 2022 after which our new property list will be released. 

Please address any queries to emailaddress@yourdomain.co.uk

Kind regards, Accommodation Service

Once you've made changes of any kind to the settings on this page, a pop-up will appear at the bottom of the page prompting you to save your changes or revert them to the previous saved changes. To save the changes, click the green button shown below:

When you're happy to re-enable your search, simply undo these changes by deleting any message entered and setting 'Enable Property Search' back to 'Yes' - then click 'Save Changes'.

If, however, you prefer to request that studentpad make such changes on your behalf, please feel free to submit a support ticket and we will be only too happy to assist.

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