Searching Newsletters

To search the archive of newsletters:

• Unfortunately, because we are not using GSuite, searching in public Google Drive folders is not straightforward, but it is possible.

• First, you must be using a desktop/laptop browser (i.e., will not work on a smartphone with Google Drive app installed)

• Next, in order for Google Drive to be able to search another account's public folders, you have to have viewed the files from your own account. To do this:

  • In your own Google Drive Account, open the Leeway Overlee Newsletters Folder

  • Open each of the year subfolders that you want to search, and open then close the PDF files stored within

    • This action will index the document in your personal Google Drive search index

    • Yes, this is tedious, but you only need to do this once. The document will be searchable in the future without having to open/close it again. If new documents are added, you will have to view them in order to search them.

• Select this search link: LOCA Newsletter Search

  • Note that this link is a "Search in Folder" link. The default list of documents shown represents the documents that are searchable. If you don't see a document in this list, follow the steps above to open/close it to add it to the search index.

• At the top of the page type your search terms in the "Search in Drive" text area

• This will limit the results to documents in the newsletter archive.