Can you give steps to reproduce? Set to UNCONFIRMED after you have given the steps.

(In reply to Beluga from comment #1)
> Can you give steps to reproduce? Set to UNCONFIRMED after you have given the
> steps.

Well, I have references in a summary table that point to the headings of the details sections.
I have created these in the following way: Ctrl+F2 -> Cross-reference -> Heading.
These headings and their references are actually register names. When I search for a register name, it is only found as a heading, while the reference itself, which is a field, is not included in the results.

Ok thanks. I don't understand the final two sentences, but maybe someone else will.

(In reply to Beluga from comment #3)
> Ok thanks. I don't understand the final two sentences, but maybe someone
> else will.

I guess then that a youtube video would help :), but I'm dealing with confidential information.

(In reply to Darius Daniel Grigoras from comment #4)
> (In reply to Beluga from comment #3)
> > Ok thanks. I don't understand the final two sentences, but maybe someone
> > else will.
> 
> I guess then that a youtube video would help :), but I'm dealing with
> confidential information.

For stripping confidential info you can try this: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport/Attachments#Confidential_Attachments

Maybe you could prepare a document quickly with the help of that macro and attach it here.

Created attachment 110923 [details]
Sample document with field reference to heading

(In reply to Darius Daniel Grigoras from comment #6)
> Created attachment 110923 [details]
> Sample document with field reference to heading

No need for the macro.
I've made a sample document which could have been easily prepared by support.
Try searching for "Lorem ipsum". You will see that despite "Lorem ipsum" appearing twice in the document, the Search function will only return the text in the heading, and not also the text that is found in the paragraph under the heading, and that because the "Lorem ipsum" in the paragraph is a reference, i.e. a field.
I really need LibreOffice to find text no matter if that text is plain text or a field.

Thanks, I confirmed. Let's set this to an enhancement.

Win 7 64-bit Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 170616e9f2d30c1302bbb5a7a4b588bc05cd5cc9
TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2014-12-12_01:58:46

(In reply to Beluga from comment #8)
> Thanks, I confirmed. Let's set this to an enhancement.
> 
> Win 7 64-bit Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+
> Build ID: 170616e9f2d30c1302bbb5a7a4b588bc05cd5cc9
> TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2014-12-12_01:58:46

Great! I guess then that this is my first confirmed LibreOffice bug. I filed others too, but so far nobody confirmed them.

(In reply to Beluga from comment #5)
> (In reply to Darius Daniel Grigoras from comment #4)
> > (In reply to Beluga from comment #3)
> > > Ok thanks. I don't understand the final two sentences, but maybe someone
> > > else will.
> > 
> > I guess then that a youtube video would help :), but I'm dealing with
> > confidential information.
> 
> For stripping confidential info you can try this:
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport/
> Attachments#Confidential_Attachments
> 
> Maybe you could prepare a document quickly with the help of that macro and
> attach it here.

BTW, that Confidential Data Stripping Macro does not remove/replace confidential images/diagrams.

I think the summary should be more precise, because if you just do a "normal" search, references are searchable.

(In reply to Dieter Praas from comment #11)
> I think the summary should be more precise, because if you just do a
> "normal" search, references are searchable.

Sorry, I think my previous comment was wrong. The only refences that are searchable in my document are citations of zotero (but they appear as references in the navigator as well as in the cross-reference-dialog

I confirm that references and cross-references are NOT searchable in Writer.
Windows 8
Libreoffice 6.1.4.2
Search finds only the headings but not in inserted reference to that heading.
Moreover, Search does not find text in cross-references, neither within the reference I set using {Set Reference} nor within a cross-reference to it {Insert Reference}.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 70142 ***