 configuring help search goal set up your site so that users can search for help steps in the manage administrative menu navigate to extend  verify that the search help and block modules are installed or install them if they are not already installed in the manage administrative menu navigate to configuration   search and metadata   search pages  verify that a help search page is listed in the search pages section if not add a new page of type help  check the indexing status of the help search page if it is not fully indexed see running and configuring cron about how to run cron until indexing is complete in the future you can click rebuild search index on this page or clearing the site cache in order to force help topic text to be reindexed for searching this should be done whenever a module theme language or string translation is updated in the manage administrative menu navigate to structure   block layout  click the link for your administrative theme such as the core claro theme near the top of the page and verify that there is already a search block for help located in the help region if not follow the steps in the related topic to place the search form block in the help region when configuring the block choose help as the search page and in the pages tab under visibility  enter  admin help to make the search form only visible on the main help page in the manage administrative menu navigate to help  verify that the search block is visible and try a search  