Search module - position in header section not working

Hi, sure
so has come up with - Great
now I have removed the seach module position and added again my menu position
never mind the layout of the search image - i will adjust
but the Offcanvas menu toggler is not coming coming back up again
https://postimg.cc/CZzJ78Mz
https://postimg.cc/4mf0tmch
what am I doing so wrongly ?

Good Morning Paul

Good Morning Paul, as per your kind comment of yesterday I will wait a few hours for you to see WHAT IS IT I AM DOING WRONG - never had this kind of issue before

what I have done though before coming up with this issue is: I have removed the update site for Helix Ultimate as I found that the framework got updated without me knowing - in fact what happened - I all of a sudden found again my preset1.css file back to default version of the installation including also the files present2 - preset8 (file I had deleted as they are not in use)
so I removed the update site in order to prevent this kind of update
Maybe I should not have done so ?

Yes, I wanted the SmartSeach module working in Header - but since that did not work - I have opted for the solution by entering a custom module that links to the SmartSearch -

but now my problem is that the menu (offcanvas menu toggler) is no longer displayed in the header

(and yes, this "automatic" update never happend before - but over the last week I had to copy my own css files from my backup folder

very many thanks in advance !!!

I did prefer on what I had before - SmartSearch Module in Header that showed the field with placeholder "Search" but since that did not function ?!?!?

https://postimg.cc/2qFVtbMF

Hi Paul, you are right - and thank you ever su much on correcting the menu in the header - by chance can you tell me what was wrong ?

So sorry, but the Search Module when in header does not work - it does not find anything - whereas when recalled from the menu - results are found; for example search "asciugamani" - see images - https://postimg.cc/qNCWG2Sq https://postimg.cc/tZ9fywTn you already told me that this issue refers to Joomla nothing to do with Joomshaper - so if you confirm this - I need to remove the module from the header and use fall back

Hi Paul,
just to let you know that I got all working just fine now - including SmartSearch Module in Header Section. What I have done is create a new temporary subdomain and restored a backedup version with toghether with the backedup database - all working OK. I just lost a relative little time adding what was not in the old database.
now ready to publish.
Thank you and have a nice day

Joomla Smart Search is actually brutish and stupid. I can't seem to pre-filter to show only certain categories or tags - so all the stuff that came over from the old site, a carcass we pick over as we create up to date content, shows up in search. It's...stupid. There is no intelligence to it at all.

But now the client wants the search turned on and I have to go through hundreds of index items and turn them off. (And given how stupid smart search is, will this 'feature' just turn these items back on when the site gets reindexed?)

So stupid it even returns trashed and unpublished items! Useless. ExtnBakers Ajax search (not free) is pretty good but hard to put the modal where you want it.

Other ideas?

update: it's me that's brutish and dumb - I poked around quite a bit and found a way to create filters enough to exlude categories and articles older than a certain date. This gets me 90% of the way there. It's kludgy and non-intuitive though.

update2: brutal. The remaining 10% is trial and error, tweak content map, re-index (don't clear the index or you'll wipe out the content map), try and err some more, rinse, repeat, repeat, repeat. My ExtnBakers test worked perfectly on one - one! - try.