Hi
I am building an addon for plone5. I'd like to add a custom search box to a browserview . The input text should be searched in fields(like title, description) of a content type. How to perform such querying in plone? Any pointers would be helpful 
You could use collective.portlet.collectionfilter. It is also mentioned here: https://training.plone.org/5/mastering_plone/custom_search.html
I did this recently using patternslib and reusing Plone's builtin search.
- I had to use Plone 5.1 it didn't work with Plone 5.0 (see: https://github.com/plone/plone.patternslib/issues/21)
- add plone.patternslib to your buildout (probably as a dependency in your add-on)
- Then use markup that uses the auto-submit and inject pattern
I've linked to the spot in this video where this is demonstrated.
They use a custom browser view but you can use Plone's @@search view.
Also look at the documentation for pat-inject http://patternslib.com/inject/
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You can do this really quickly with rapido.
Here's a snippet that you can use as a good starting point.
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