Hey @blqt!
Yes! Woo hoo!! Thank you so much for reaching out. It seems like your advice in addition to @pgr and @BrozTechnologies did the trick! Seems like it was the final missing piece to the puzzle.
For some reason, my custom modules were NOT previously showing up in the Admin / Search area, until the “$dictionary[‘MODULE_NAME’][‘fields’][‘name’][‘unified_search’]=” flag was set to true
For future reference and anyone looking back on this, the steps were as follows:
- Set the unified_search option to “true” for any custom fields that you’ve created under your custom modules in the correct vardefs.php file. For example, my custom modules are located here: /var/www/html/modules (instead of /var/www/html/custom/Extension/modules/ )
- Do the repair/rebuild option
- Go to the Admin → Search Settings page, and locate your custom module name in the “Disabled Modules” section and move it to the “Enabled Modules” section, then save.
Thanks to all three of you for your awesome assistance with this! I really appreciate everyone’s time, and hope you all have a great day!