From 68882aa9bc99ad2a2ce3e20baa4e5ad4a4d6166d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jarrod Flesch <30633324+JarrodMFlesch@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:58:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(plugin-search): returns doc instead of empty return
 (#13916)

Returns doc instead of nothing/undefined inside the syncDocAsSearchIndex
function when the plugin encounters a document it has already synced.
---
 packages/plugin-search/src/utilities/syncDocAsSearchIndex.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/plugin-search/src/utilities/syncDocAsSearchIndex.ts b/packages/plugin-search/src/utilities/syncDocAsSearchIndex.ts
index 2b2372963..7755f44a5 100644
--- a/packages/plugin-search/src/utilities/syncDocAsSearchIndex.ts
+++ b/packages/plugin-search/src/utilities/syncDocAsSearchIndex.ts
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ export const syncDocAsSearchIndex = async ({
      * this can happen when hooks call `payload.update` within the create lifecycle
      * like the nested-docs plugin does
      */
-    return
+    return doc
   } else {
     syncedDocsSet.add(docKey)
   }