Search doesn't consider taxonomy terms with localized fields

[beliven-emanuele-bertoldi]

Bug description

• We have a site with several languages.
• We have a "news" collection with a "category" taxonomy.
• The "Category" taxonomy has a title and a description attributes.
• Entries in the "news" collection have untranslated, propagated attributes.
• Searching on a site with a different language by a taxonomy term in default language doesn't return linked items.

How to reproduce

• Create a site multi-language
• Create a "category" taxonomy with a title and a description attribute
• Set the "propagate" flag to all taxonomy attributes
• Change search config including an index by taxonomy title and description attributes
• Create a category with a description in the default language
• Choose a custom language different by the default one
• Search by category description typing it in default language

Logs

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Environment

Statamic 4.52
PHP 8.1
Laravel 10.8

Installation

Fresh statamic/statamic site via CLI

Antlers Parser

None

Additional details

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[duncanmcclean]

Just to clarify, are you talking about the Control Panel search or the search on the frontend with the {{ search:results }} tag?

[beliven-emanuele-bertoldi]

@duncanmcclean the search on the frontend with the {{ search:results }} tag

[duncanmcclean]

I've tried to replicate this issue locally, but everything seems to be working fine for me 🤔

Although, it's possible I'm misunderstanding the reproduction steps you provided... is this what you're doing?

1. Creating a new category term with title & description fields in the default site.
2. Then, on the right-hand side, clicking on another site to localize the term.
3. Using the {{ search:results }} tag on your frontend to search for text in the category description.

In my testing site, I have a term with two localizations - English & German. The description of my English localization contains the word Coffee and my German localization contains the word Kaffee.

When I search in my English site, Coffee returns the term but Kaffee doesn't. Then, when I search in my German site, Kaffee returns the term but Coffee doesn't.

Is that accurate? Are you expecting it to work differently?

[beliven-emanuele-bertoldi]

Hi @duncanmcclean , thanks for your feedback!

Our use case involves the use of propagation (https://statamic.dev/tips/localizing-entries#propagation), so using untranslated (propagated) content during search on sites with different language.

So, based on your example, it would be like having the description Coffee in English and propagated as-is to German and then searching for Coffee on the german site.

[duncanmcclean]

Oh, you're using entries, not taxonomies?