Search: Simple Form

Question

I'm not sure what is happening. I have used the Simple Search successfully before but am not having any luck with it and EE 2.8.1. Hopefully someone can assist me with this as I'm sure I'm missing something simple :)

Snippet containing the simple search tag:

{exp:search:simple_form channel="blog" result_page="blog/search" search_in="everywhere" status="open" where="all" show_expired="yes" show_future_entries="yes"}
<input type="text" id="keywords" name="keywords" placeholder="Enter your search" class="pull-left">
<input type="submit" id="submit">
{/exp:search:simple_form}

Here's my /blog/search template which was taken directly from the documentation:

<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" width="100%">
    <tr>
        <th>{lang:title}</th>
        <th>{lang:excerpt}</th>
        <th>{lang:author}</th>
        <th>{lang:date}</th>
        <th>{lang:total_comments}</th>
        <th>{lang:recent_comments}</th>
    </tr>

{exp:search:search_results switch="resultRowOne|resultRowTwo"}

    <tr class="{switch}">
        <td width="30%" valign="top"><b><a href="{auto_path}">{title}</a></b></td>
        <td width="30%" valign="top">{excerpt}</td>
        <td width="10%" valign="top"><a href="{member_path='member/index'}">{author}</a></td>
        <td width="10%" valign="top">{entry_date format="%m/%d/%y"}</td>
        <td width="10%" valign="top">{comment_total}</td>
        <td width="10%" valign="top">{recent_comment_date format="%m/%d/%y"}</td>
    </tr>

    {if count == total_results}
        </table>
    {/if}

    {paginate}
        <p>Page {current_page} of {total_pages} pages {pagination_links}</p>
    {/paginate}

{/exp:search:search_results}

</table>

I'm attempting to search within a GRID field and have my Field Marked as Searchable as well as the column I want to search in. I have several Blog Entries setup with various content. Most of them have the word "Testing" in them yet when I search for that word I get no results.

What else could I be missing?

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What's also weird is that sometimes the "Error" page (which pulls in the User Message Template) has the Heading missing at times like so. I doubt it's related but still strange!

Answer 1

Looks like this was a FREEBIE issue. I set "search" to always parse and POOF! Thanks to Kevin @ Ellis Lab for the help on this one!

Answer 2

Try replacing search_in="everywhere" with search_in="entries" in the exp:search:simple_form tag. I remember having problems with this with EE 2.8.1. Also try removing where="all".

I hope this helps

Answer 3

We had the same issue with our search form and it ended up being we had stickies turned off in our server, so our session was pointing to another server when we hit submit. Thus shooting this type of error because it was looking for something that didn't exist in that server. -- I hope this helps.