# Search bar not appearing for 1 table
**URL:** https://community.forestadmin.com/t/search-bar-not-appearing-for-1-table/7946
**Category:** Help me!
**Created:** [March 5, 2025, 10:50am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/search-bar-not-appearing-for-1-table/7946 "2025-03-05T10:50:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@ed.sparks](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/ed.sparks)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2025, 10:50am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/search-bar-not-appearing-for-1-table/7946/1 "2025-03-05T10:50:54Z")
## Feature(s) impacted
Search functionality not working on 1 table only
## Observed behavior
Search bar should be there but it’s not
## Expected behavior
Search bar being there
## Context
- Project name: Ibex
- Team name:N/A
- Environment name: Production
- Agent technology: rails
- Agent (forest package) name & version: forest liana 8.1.0
- Database type: postgresql
- Recent changes made on your end if any: N/A
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### Author:  [@anon7311026](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon7311026)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/search-bar-not-appearing-for-1-table/7946/2 "2025-03-05T10:55:46Z")
Hello @ed.sparks,
The global search bar should be shown unless it has been deactivated by a [customization](https://docs.forestadmin.com/developer-guide-agents-nodejs/agent-customization/search#disable-the-search), or if it is a smart collection, which is not searchable by default.
Did the search use to be working well for this collection at some point ? If so when did start to see that the bar disappear ? Does filtering work correctly ?
Please let me know on which collection does the problem occur 🙏
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### Author:  [@ed.sparks](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/ed.sparks)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2025, 10:58am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/search-bar-not-appearing-for-1-table/7946/3 "2025-03-05T10:58:30Z")
Hi Nicolas,
It’s a normal collection with 1 smart action but we haven’t made any changes to it.
Where would we be able to turn it off. I haven’t been able to locate something like that?
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### Author:  [@ed.sparks](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/ed.sparks)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2025, 10:58am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/search-bar-not-appearing-for-1-table/7946/4 "2025-03-05T10:58:56Z")
And yes, it’s been working for a few years and never been an issue.
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### Author:  [@anon7311026](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon7311026)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2025, 11:04am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/search-bar-not-appearing-for-1-table/7946/5 "2025-03-05T11:04:05Z")
what is the collection name please ?
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### Author:  [@anon7311026](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon7311026)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2025, 11:05am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/search-bar-not-appearing-for-1-table/7946/6 "2025-03-05T11:05:57Z")
I have found 1 collection that is not searchable in your api schema, the collection “Campaign”. Is that the one ?
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### Author:  [@ed.sparks](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/ed.sparks)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/search-bar-not-appearing-for-1-table/7946/7 "2025-03-05T11:34:01Z")
Hi Nicolas,
Yes, that is the table. But we haven’t made any changes on our side that would have affected that to my knowledge.
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### Author:  [@anon7311026](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon7311026)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/search-bar-not-appearing-for-1-table/7946/8 "2025-03-05T12:29:54Z")
Ok. Indeed, looking through your apimap versions (since 09/09/2024), it has always been this way.
Maybe we fixed a bug which previously let the search bar appear on frontend in this case, but I’m not aware of any.
In any case, you will have to update your agent schema or customization to try and enable search on this collection, since it is the expected behaviour from frontend side.
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### Author:  [@ed.sparks](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/ed.sparks)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2025, 12:40pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/search-bar-not-appearing-for-1-table/7946/9 "2025-03-05T12:40:38Z")
Hi Nicolas,
Thank you for finding this.
We haven’t got anywhere in our codebase where we have deactivated the search.
The only addition we have made to this table is we created a new field in the collection as Forest Admin would not display one of our fields correctly and I spent time with the support team on a call writing the workaround. Which is here
```ruby
class ForestLiana::Collections::Campaign
include ForestLiana::Collection
collection :Campaign
search_code =
lambda do |query, search|
# Injects your new filter into the WHERE clause.
query.where_clause.send(:predicates)[0] << " OR (campaign_id = '#{search}')"
query
end
set_code =
lambda do |user_params, code|
user_params[:campaign_id] = code
user_params
end
field :campaign_code, type: 'String', search: search_code, set: set_code do
object.campaign_id
end
action 'Import Campaign'
end
```
Outside of this, there is a smart action “Import Campaign”
```ruby
class Forest::CampaignsController < ForestLiana::SmartActionsController
# Smart Action for importing campaigns directly from the Forest Admin dashboard
# This action is triggered when the user clicks on the "Import Campaign" button
def import_campaign
campaign_id = ForestLiana::ResourcesGetter.get_ids_from_request(params, forest_user).first
user = User.find_by(email: forest_user['email'])
Campaign.find(campaign_id).init_import(user) if user
head(:no_content)
end
end
```
Outside of this, where would I re-enable the search functionality or override the schema?
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### Author:  [@anon21153075](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon21153075)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/search-bar-not-appearing-for-1-table/7946/10 "2025-03-05T13:40:44Z")
Hello @ed.sparks,
I have reproduced the problem on my side.
You can add the `is_searchable: true` option to force the collection to be searchable, as shown below:
```javascript
class ForestLiana::Collections::Campaign
include ForestLiana::Collection
collection :Campaign, is_searchable: true
```
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### Author:  [@anon7311026](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon7311026)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/search-bar-not-appearing-for-1-table/7946/11 "2025-03-05T14:28:49Z")
> [@anon7311026](#):
>
> Maybe we fixed a bug which previously let the search bar appear on frontend in this case, but I’m not aware of any.
I have been told that indeed, we fixed a bug with the search bar recently. Sorry for the inconvenience caused 🙏
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### Author:  [@ed.sparks](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/ed.sparks)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/search-bar-not-appearing-for-1-table/7946/12 "2025-03-05T15:20:27Z")
> [@anon21153075](#):
>
> `, is_searchable: true`
Thank you for looking into this Nicolas.
I’all add the change now.
Many thanks
Ed