Search box on the Navigation Panel in the Documentation Theme is missing

[Eric Riddle]

Hi everyone,

The search box that usually appears at the top of the left-side navigation panel for the Documentation Theme has gone missing.

I've done the following:

1) Removed all custom HTML, on the off chance that I was overwriting it somehow.

2) Checked that all modules for the Documentation theme were enabled.

The search box still has not come back.

What should I try next?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Ah, gottit, I know this one now.

Check the settings for the global search - if that has been restricted to "current space", then you don't get the "local" search box in the documentation theme

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's pretty obscure, and, from memory, it IS documented. One sentence in the middle of a huge great brain-dump of a document, and it doesn't stand out at all :-(

[Eric Riddle]

That did the trick. I had just figured it out myself.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

It's usually enabled or disabled by a tick-box in the theme's settings - maybe one of your admins accidentally clicked it off?

Confluence Admin -> Look and Feel -> Theme -> configure this theme -> checkbox at the top of the list.

[Eric Riddle]

Hi Nic,

There's only two boxes:Page Tree, and Limit search results. Both are checked.

The page tree itself is visible. It's only the search box that usually appears above the page tree that's missing.