Low search showing repeating/too many results

Question

The search is returning too many results and repeating the same result entries more then once.

I have a second collection set up almost exactly the same which doesn't do this.

Any idea what is going on? Thanks for looking.

Search box code

  {exp:low_search:form result_page="publications/pub_results"}
     <fieldset>
       <input type="search" name="keywords" id="keywords"/>
       <button type="submit">Search Publications</button>
     </fieldset>
  {/exp:low_search:form}

Results page code (with mark up simplified)

    {exp:low_search:results query="{segment_3}" limit="10" collection="publications_c" search_mode="auto"}
  {if count ==  1}

           <p>{pub_year}</p>

              <h4 style="margin-left:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-top:0px; padding-top:0px;"><a href="{url_title}">{full_title}.</a></h4> 


                   {/if}

             {if count == total_results}</ol>{/if}
                {if no_results}<p>No search results. Check your spelling or try a different search term.</p>{/if}
              {/exp:low_search:results}

Answer 1

To quote the docs:

[P]arameters can be applied in two ways: as input fields in a Form, or as hard-coded parameters in the Results or URL tag.

That means the Form tag doesn't accept any filter parameters, like collection and search_mode, which are part of the Keywords filter. So try moving those parameters to the Results tag instead.

Also, the parameter name is not a valid on the Form tag. If you're trying to set an html attribute to the form-tag, use form_name instead.

Edit: After investigation, it turned out the Results tag was nested inside a channel:entries tag, and the code inside the Results tag was wrapped inside a {if count == 1} conditional. The problem was solved after these issues were addressed.