Search - Minimum Characters

You can set the default minimum number of characters that must be entered before a basic search is automatically invoked, by defining the following statement in the <appSettings> section of the web.config configuration file. For example, you can set the minimum number of characters that must be entered before a basic search begins, to 10, as illustrated below:

<add key="AW:QuickSearch:MinEntry" value="10" />

Note: The default number of characters that must be entered before the search begins is four, and the minimum number of characters that must be entered before the search automatically starts, is two.