Hi Jeff,

This sounds like a known bug in the PacletDocumentationBuild incremental re-build logic; a fix is in the works, but for now a workaround is possible.

The issue is that when an incremental documentation build is done, search index data is only created for files that have changed since the last build. If no files have changed, then the search index will be empty. (You observed that the search index files exist, but it's likely that they're empty.) If you delete your build output directory, then call PacletBuild exactly once, a full rebuild will be done, and consequently the built paclet will have documentation search index data for all doc files. If you install that built .paclet file, documentation search and symbol lookup should work as expected.

I'll update this thread again once a fix has been released.

That did it. I also had a minor error in my Overview page that I was ignoring as inconsequential. That may have been derailing the indexing. I removed the Overview page and it's all indexing properly. Now to fix that issue.

Thanks for the tip.

Jeff