Search/facets don't appear on search results

[danchamp]

Follow-up to: localgovdrupal/localgov_base#80

This is inconsistent with events and directories, where search and facets remain visible and populated on search results pages.

[markconroy]

Unassigning myself from this. I'll do the frontend/template/CSS work if it's needed.

[finnlewis]

Just to add detail to this, from : localgovdrupal/localgov_base#80

A couple of questions:

1. Can we include the search form on the search page, as we do with events and directories? (This may be a module issue.)
2. Can we make it easier to switch the sidebar to the right side? 
     At present I need to over-ride the whole template. Alternatively, we could default to having the sidebar on the right side, 
     matching the pattern at BHCC, London Councils, and Croydon?

[finnlewis]

So I think we want this:

• On a default install of localgov_news
• On the /news/* search results pages
• Add the exposed search block to the sidebar first
• Add the facet blocks for category and date.

So it looks something like this:

[finnlewis]

@danchamp have you already done some work on this?

[finnlewis]

I've added some optional config which kicks in if the localgov_base theme is already enabled.

It is an odd situation, when enabling the localgov_news with the localgov_theme enabled, it seems to pick up the block config sometimes or in some situations, but not always.

When enabling the localgov_base theme first, then enabling the localgov_news module, it is clear that we need the specific config available to place the blocks.

What do you think @danchamp ?

[rupertj]

This looks like another issue that can be fixed by localgovdrupal/localgov_core#211

[msayoung]

Is it possible this has now been fixed @finnlewis ?

[ekes]

I'm guessing it's better/fixed for the OP; but can be even better fixed by Rupert's new block placement system. So maybe we keep this history and repurpose the ticket for that.