Search not working!

#1

dear friends,

I have this odd problem: the search box in the sidebar seems to have stopped working. It doesnt produce the pop up preview and, no matter what the search term is, it’d finding 594 matches!

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when I press the maginfuing glass icon the expected behaviour would be to open the search tiddler with the search term in the search box,. It doesn’t do that-instead it opens the advanced search tiddler, the field is empty ant the results seem to correspond to the search term

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I have $:/plugins/kookma/search installed but disabling it made no difference

Unfortunately I can’t share my wiki. Any idea how to approach this?

thanks in advance!
thanasis sklapanis

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#2

Hi @Thanasis_Sklapanis ,

I am not sure how I can help with your question - but do know that there is a place you can "upload’ your tiddlywiki - I found out about this a couple months ago - thanks to one of the dev’s here.

You can use your existing TW Talk account.

Hope this helps.

TwN00b

#3

I would guess that you misconfigured the field-search plugin. Without being able to see your TW, it’s very hard to know.

I would try removing the field-search plugin and then reloading.

Are there other plugins that you’re using?
Also, @Mohammad 's plugin requires certain versions of TW, so what is your TW version?

Good luck!

#4

I have the same trouble for a couple of months. The same behaviours happen in my local TW with node.js and even https://tiddlywiki.com/.

It happens at random times and cannot reproduce it.

The search list will reappear if you click again (or a couple times) in the search box.

#5

Hi @TwN00b, thanks for your input!

#6

Hi @Mark_S I did try removing the field search plugin, without luck. My version is 5.3.3 and i use a bunch of plugins (some disabled):

tiddlyclip: include web content
hotzone: HotZone – Be notified when tiddlers are scrolled into view
tiddlymap: TiddlyMap – Map drawing and topic visualization for your wiki
topstoryview: TopStoryView – Always scroll navigated tiddlers to the top
vis: Visjs – TiddlyWiki5 plugin for the vis.js library
relink: Relink - flexibility when relinking renamed tiddlers
mermaid-tw5: Wrappers for mermaid.js (disabled)
rocklib: Utility classes for gt6796c plugins
datepicker: datepicker plugin for TiddlyWiki5, based on Pikaday version 1.6.1
moment: moment.js plugin for TiddlyWiki5
GenTags: A plugin to let any field be used like the tags field (disabled)
FontAwesome: FontAwesome embedded font support for TW5
appear: Create popups, sliders or accordion menus with the appear widget. (disabled)
preview: Shows a tiddler preview when hovering internal links (disabled)
layout_adjustment: Layout adjustment
tristate: Tristate sidebar
ListTree: ListTree - style common bullet lists into list trees
Core: TiddlyWiki5 core
D3: D3 data visualisation demo
Projectify: Simple project management for TiddlyWiki
Search in Fields: Advanced search in fields using regular expression and tabular output
Shiraz: extended markups, styles, images, tables, and macros
Shiraz Formatter: Editor buttons and snippets for Shiraz
Tiddler Commander: Tiddler Commander
Utility: Small tools for authors and developers
Viz: Plugin for graphviz

However I stumbled upon this solution: I had in my TW a tiddler called $:/core/ui/SideBarLists

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I deleted it, reverted to the default version and now the search works fine. I supppose one needs to backup modifications in the shadow tiddler.

Thanks for your reply!
thanasis sklapanis

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#7

Hi @Zheng_Bangyou. Please see above for a possible solution. Thanks!

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#8

Thanks @Thanasis_Sklapanis . I don’t have this shadow tiddler. It might be something else.

I have tried the brand new install TW with the same problem. I guess it might be related with my environments.

#9

Brand new with no plugins?

Stand-alone TW is pretty much free from environmental effects … except the browser. What browser and version are you using?

#10

Chrome with 127.0.6533.100. I know it is very strange. Have no idea what’s happening here.

It only randomly appears a time in couple days. So I cannot conduct a broad scenario test. When it does happen, there are no error/warning message in the console.

It is not a big issue for me. It will be automatically fixed after re-entering into search box.

It might be related with DOM element is not showing at the top of pages (Z-Index?), as all behaviours of search box is normal, except search list.

Next time, I will inspect DOM elements in the page, and disable my Chrome extensions.

#11

Any browser plugins messing with CSS? E.g “night mode” plugin or such…? Adblocker settings blocking certain classes or “anything prefixed X” etc?

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