Blocks

Add a Search Box to Your Virtual Tour

The Search block gives visitors a search box for your virtual tour. They type “kitchen”, “pool” or “room 204” and jump straight there, instead of clicking through every panorama to find it. It’s most useful on big tours: hotels, campuses, museums, venues, and homes with many rooms and floors.

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Blocks
  1. Add a Welcome Screen to Your Virtual Tour
  2. Add Music and Sound to Your Virtual Tour
  3. Add an Interactive Floor Plan to Your Virtual Tour
  4. How to Add a 3D Dollhouse to Your Virtual Tour
  5. Show Your Virtual Tour on a Map with Map View
  6. Add a Navigation Menu to Your Virtual Tour
  7. Add Call-to-Action Buttons to a Virtual Tour
  8. Add a Search Box to Your Virtual Tour
  9. Customise the Control Bar in Your Virtual Tour
  10. Show or Hide the Thumbnail Bar in a Virtual Tour
  11. Before and After 360 Photos: Split View and Twin View
  12. Magic Embed: Put a Video or Picture Inside a 360 Photo
  13. Virtual Host: Put a Green-Screen Presenter in a 360 Photo
  14. Add a Video Presenter to Your Whole Tour
  15. Reuse Blocks Across Virtual Tours with Global Blocks

What visitors can find

The search looks through each panorama’s title and description, and each hotspot’s name. Choosing a panorama in the results goes to it; choosing a hotspot goes to its panorama, turned to face the hotspot.

Add the Search block

  1. Open your tour in the editor, choose + Add at the top left, then the Search card.
  2. Give visitors a way to open it. In the block’s settings, turn on Enable in Control Bar to add a search button to your control bar. You need the Control Bar block for this.
The Search card in the block picker, outlined

You can also link a menu item, a control bar button or a CTA button to Search, for example a button labelled Find a room.

Enable in Menu is different: it adds a small search box to the top of your Menu block that filters the menu’s own items. It needs the Menu block.

Name things so they can be found

Search only finds the words you’ve given it, so before you publish:

  1. Go to each panorama, open the Panorama tab at the top right, and under Panorama Details give it a clear title, such as Kitchen or Room 204, sea view.
  2. Add a short description with the words people might search for: breakfast bar, wine fridge, garden doors.
  3. Name your hotspots, so a search for “brochure” or “video” finds them. See Hotspot labels and icons.

Good titles help everywhere else too: they show in the thumbnail bar and the panorama list.

Common questions

The free trial includes it. If your paid plan doesn’t, choosing the card offers an upgrade.

Why doesn’t a room show up when I search for it?

Its panorama has no title or description with that word. Search matches parts of words, so “bed” finds “Bedroom 2”, but it won’t find a synonym you haven’t written down.

Open the block’s settings and choose Remove Block.

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