having seperate search navbox cards+discussion

Sounds like it would require code, as far as I know.

One general solution would be for us to add a setting that specifies a *search. Another method would be for us to add a "search" directive in inclusion syntax, which would only be relevant when including *navbox. So the custom layout for a custom search section would use {{*navbox|search:*customsearch}} rather than {{*navbox}} (which would default to *search). --John Abbe

yes, the connection is currently hard coded. There's very little code involved; it would just be a couple of hours work or less for someone who knows the code.

fwiw, the second (inclusion-based) solution makes a lot more sense to me; any given setting card would seem to have problems. There is a "wild" directive that can be used for narrow cases like this.

  --Ethan McCutchen.....Thu Jun 21 19:29:06 +0000 2012

You mean it would be {{*navbox|wild:*customsearch}} , and wild has context-sensitive meaning for cases narrow enough that you'd never be likely to have two different uses on the same set? Is this to avoid having "too many" directives?

  --John Abbe.....Thu Jun 21 22:45:55 +0000 2012

that's pretty much the syntax, yes (except customsearch shouldn't have a "*"). for now the inclusion syntax is a reserved namespace. "wild" lets people pass variables through but doesn't open up new syntax creation (yet).

  --Ethan McCutchen.....Thu Jun 21 22:51:24 +0000 2012