By andersduus on

I just realised that Drupal 8 search does not find content placed in blocks. Is that true or a setting not set right?

Thanks for the help

Anders

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Jaypan’s picture

Jaypan commented

Search does not search blocks. Blocks can be on any number of pages, so there is no canonical link to which a search result could point.

Also, your post isn't in regards to coding or developing a module, so you should move it to the Post Installation forum.

andersduus’s picture

andersduus commented

moved :-)

I understand the structure of block but I would expect that I could choose to return all content placed on a node including blocks. Is there no way to do that? or do we need to install a external search engine?

Jaypan’s picture

Jaypan commented

Blocks are assigned to paths, not nodes, so there isn't a direct relation between them. The search by default searches only the main content of a page, not blocks. You would need an external search engine that indexes based on the entire HTML of the page, rather than the Drupal search which indexes on a programmatic level.

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extravioar commented

If you use the paragraphs module and define a paragraph that references a block, you have a block linked to a node. The search API supports it as you can select Content > Paragraphs > Blocks > Body in the Search Fields form.
So I think there should be a search hook on the Block object as well.