JS Function, cant figure out why

JS Function, cant figure out why

I may have one of the weirdest problems I have ever had. I have a portion of script (included below), which gets executed when the page loads. As far as I can tell, this function only gets called once, the weird part though, is the entire function executes twice.... I debugged it as much as I can. When I comment out the line where I call it (once), it doesnt get executed at all, when I uncomment it, it gets executed twice...

I dont see anywhere in the function where it executes itself, and if it did, I would think it would do it more than twice.

ANY help would be great.

Heres the small portion where it gets executed:

  1. <script>
    forms.sidebar_search();
    </script>

And again, somehow that executes the sidebar_search() twice, but when I comment out that one single line, it wont get executed at all.

And heres the function itself.

  1. sidebar_search: function() {

    // Hide/Show the sidebar when the menu is collapsed
    $('[data-click=sidebar-minify]').click(function(e) {
    forms.sidebar_search_visibility();
    });

    // Make API call to get quick search setting
    var quick_search_api = $.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: '/REST/app/setting/config/my_site/name/asset_quicksearch',
    async: false,
    dataType: 'json'
    }).responseText;

    console.log("RES: " + quick_search_api);

    var quick_search = $.parseJSON( quick_search_api );

    // Check if the quick search is enabled
    if(quick_search.asset_quicksearch === true) {
    // Query for all primary values of current partition
    var result = $.ajax( {
    type: "GET",
    url: '/REST/partition/primary_attribute_values',
    async: false,
    dataType: 'json'
    } ).responseText;

    var primary_attribute = $.parseJSON( result );

    // Populate the search field if values are set
    if ( primary_attribute.values ) {
    //$('#sidebar-search-container' ).removeClass('display-none' ).addClass('display-block');
    $( '#sidebar-search-container' ).fadeIn( 'slow' );

    $( '#sidebar-search' ).autocomplete( {
    source: primary_attribute.values
    } );

    // Submit action
    var do_submit = function () {
    var search_val = $( '#sidebar-search' ).val();
    if( $.trim(search_val) !== '') {
    $( location ).attr( 'href', '/assets/search/' + primary_attribute.column + '/' + search_val );
    }
    };

    // On enter
    $( '#sidebar-search-form' ).submit( function ( e ) {
    e.preventDefault();
    do_submit();
    } );

    // On the button click
    $( '#sidebar-search-form-button' ).click( function ( e ) {
    e.preventDefault();
    do_submit();
    } );

    } else {
    console.log( 'No primary attribute for partition, hiding Quick Asset Search' );
    //$('#sidebar-search-container' ).removeClass('display-block' ).addClass('display-none');
    $( '#sidebar-search-container' ).fadeOut( 'slow' );
    }
    }
    }

Thanks in advance for any help!