Google Analytics search tracking with events

Question

I have enabled "Site search Tracking" in Google Analytics.
Is there a way to send users search terms with events instead of pageviews? I am using it for an instant-search on a webshop so I dont want to send each tracking as a pageview.

Answer 1

Site search Tracking functionality in View Settings only works when parameters are in queryString of a pageview.

I tried out of curiosity by managing the queryString in a page associated with an event hit and I can confirm that it does not work, the search terms are acquired in the report only when they are sent with pageview hits.