Hi. My category search function isn’t working. [Screen Shot 2020-05-18 at 18.57.15] The screenshot is from ‘new topic’, but it’s the same when editing a category, or moving posts between categories. (I’m not referring to newly created categories that might require a refresh, but to all of them.) …

Is there something unusual about your categories? If we can’t repro it here or on try.discourse.org that indicates it is possibly a local config problem.

Hi Jeff, I’ve tested on my phone, a different browser, a guest account, and they none of them have a working search function. If there is anything unusual about my categories, it’s unintentional. Where can I check / reset things? Thanks!

You can try looking at your site in safe mode - if that works, then you know it’s a most likely a theme component or third party plugin. https://SITEURL/safe-mode

Hi Tobias, thanks for your suggestion. I went into safe mode and tried, but still nada: [Screen Shot 2020-05-19 at 15.04.56] It’s as if they don’t load. The “No match” reply occurs instantly, from the moment I start typing the first letter…

Sorry to hear you continue to have trouble with this.. it must be frustrating! You’ve probably checked all this but… do you have unusual category security settings limiting access? Does the user account have access to post to any category?

Hi Tobias, thanks for thinking along! My admin account has access to everything. But I had left one thing untested: an incognito window. And lo and behold: it works there, both for my test account and for admin. So then I thought some setting in my regular browsers must be interfering, like mayb…

Interesting, great catch – I guess one of the categories must have the words “ads” in it? :thinking:

Actually, I was wrong, :frowning: or at least partially: It now works on some searches, like when you’re in a category and you want to find a specific sub-category. But it still doesn’t work in others. Will dive back in in a few days. I really need to spruce up some categories, but seeing how the…

The next time it happens, try to check if there’s any errors in your browser console . It’s usually a pretty good indicator.

You’re not going to believe this… :rofl: spot the difference: [Screen Shot 2020-05-20 at 18.12.48] [Screen Shot 2020-05-20 at 17.51.50] Being unable to interpret the details of Joe’s suggestion (but still: thanks!) I asked someone else to dig into that for me. Him: “But it works…” Turns out…

Category search function not working

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j.jaffeux (Joffrey Jaffeux) May 21, 2020, 9:05am 18

This will be fixed by:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/9850

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Category search function not working

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