Redirect search block to our search_api-based search

This is kind of related to my question: #2118489: Add (search) widget to template in code

The Search form block is just the standard Drupal search, while the search widget you can add to a panel is a widget that searches the included Search API view "Database Search". There is no way I am aware of that you can use the first block to search in the latter.

I can think of two solutions:

* Follow the question I have above, and (if there is an answer) impement that directly in your page.tpl.php template file
* Expose a fulltext search filter on the view as a block, then place if with Context / block UI. You should find tutorials on how to do this if you Google it.

Seems to be an answer here that would do the trick, so closing.

i believe the correct solution is simply to add search_block_form to $formd_id condition at this line :
http://cgit.drupalcode.org/panopoly_search/tree/panopoly_search.module#n16

what happens is panopoly_search form alter does its work for search_form and not search_block_form .

i know this patch doesn't follow correct format and naming convention .
but it still describes what needs to be done .

@yakoub: Thanks for the patch!

Sounds like a bug, but I haven't tried to reproduce yet. Marking as "Needs review" because it has a patch, and adding to the sprint board.

Here is a patch which adds support to the Search Box block provided by core's Search module.

Here is Travis build from fork: https://travis-ci.org/mglaman/panopoly/builds/70544115

Here's another build of the same patch (because @mglaman's errored): https://travis-ci.org/panopoly/panopoly/builds/71269173

Hrm, also, looking at this patch it appears to also include the changes in #2500307: Update search_api to 1.15 and search_api_solr to 1.8 which should be removed.

Tests on Travis passed! And worked for me in my manual testing. Here is a reroll of the patch with the changes from #2500307: Update search_api to 1.15 and search_api_solr to 1.8 removed.

Committed this yesterday! Closing.