I've tried this on two installations and there is the same problem with both:

When you search from the sidebar, it doesn't give any results, but just brings you to /search/node. Then you have to search again in the form in the main content area to actually get results.

The code for the form looks different from other themes like box_grey (which worked a little better when I inserted it into the page template, but not perfectly). I'm going to try to figure out what is wrong, but just wanted to mention it.

Thanks

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wdrupal’s picture

wdrupal commented

I'm not sure exactly how it works, but I got it working by replacing this default code:

    <?php if ($search_box): ?> 
    <form action="<?php print $search_url ?>" method="post" id="searchform"> 
      <input class="form-text" type="text" size="15" value="" name="keys" id="s" /> 
      <input class="form-submit" type="submit" value="<?php print $search_button_text ?>" id="searchsubmit" /> 
    </form> 
    <?php endif; ?>

with this, combined from Connections and box_grey templates:

<?php if ($search_box): ?>
  <form action="<?php print $search_url ?>" method="post" id="searchform">
    <div id="search">
      <input class="form-text" type="text" size="15" value="" name="edit[keys]" id="s" /><input class="form-submit" type="submit" value="<?php print $search_button_text ?>" id="searchsubmit" />
    </div>
  </form>
  <?php endif; ?>

(page.tpl.php in Connections theme)

Richard Sheppard@www.siliconmeadow.net’s picture

Richard Sheppard@www.siliconmeadow.net commented

A workaround I've done is to remove that code altogether and enable the search form block and put it at the top of the left column. Visually, it's a lot heavier than the one coded into page.tpl.php, but it works.

(Using it with 4.7, btw - can be seen here: http://www.siliconmeadow.net)