Basic Search of the VCU MBU Collection
In general, a major business unit (mbu) web collection will be made up of content from ~1-20 different vcu.edu domains. They are typically grouped by mbu or TerminalFour primary channel.
Try it out
The following code example searches the School of Dentistry's collection. When implementing this code on your own website don't forget to replace the School of Dentistry's clive input value with your own.
Try searching terms like "admissions" or "alumni." Notice that you do not get results from the other schools or the main VCU Admissions or Development and Alumni Relations pages. You should only be getting results from the family of School of Dentistry websites.
Finding your collection ID
If you are unsure about the collection ID you need you can find it by following these steps.
- Go to https://search.vcu.edu and search for a term to bring up a page you believe should be in the collection you want to limit to.
- In the resulting url, change search.html to search.json and look through the json response.
- Find the response.results array for your particular query.
- Each result in the array of response.results is an object that has a collection attribute. This collection attribute is your collection id.
Collection IDs
We may be adding new collections in the future, but here is a list of mbu web collection IDs to get started.
- vcu-administration
- vcu-advancement-services
- vcu-arts
- vcu-audit-compliance-services
- vcu-brandcenter
- vcu-business
- vcu-business-services
- vcu-dentistry
- vcu-dvc
- vcu-education
- vcu-engineering
- vcu-facilities
- vcu-gehli
- vcu-global
- vcu-health-professions
- vcu-health-sciences
- vcu-honors
- vcu-human-resources
- vcu-humanities-and-sciences
- vcu-inclusive-excellence
- vcu-libraries
- vcu-life-sciences
- vcu-massey-cancer-center
- vcu-medicine
- vcu-nursing
- vcu-pharmacy
- vcu-police
- vcu-ppd
- vcu-president
- vcu-procurement
- vcu-provost
- vcu-research-innovation
- vcu-sem
- vcu-social-behavioral-health
- vcu-social-work
- vcu-society-health
- vcu-student-affairs
- vcu-ts
- vcu-university-relations
- vcu-vpfb
- vcu-wilder