Usecase: widget initiates search (not just filter on results)

Hi guys,

We have followed the docs and popped the Spatial Search Widget onto the ../package/search.html template.

It seems like the intended use for this map widget is to support search results filtering. Ie, the user must already start a search before they get a chance to filter on extent.

In our case 90% of the users want to start their search with the bounding box...then they can refine and filter the results based on topic etc.

So, I want to mount the search widget on the front page so that 'extent' is the first search term submitted.

Can this be supported?

Cheers,
JB