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brianrhea
brianrhea

Reputation: 3724

Algolia: restrictSearchableAttributes to particular part of query

I see in the documentation for restrictSearchableAttributes that I can restrict a query to specific attributes, and that works fine.

However, I'd like to be able to restrict just a part of the query to that attribute the way you can with Gmail's search functionality.

For example, I want the user to be able to search for:

Travel from:John

And that would look for the word "John" only in the "from" attribute, and then it would also look for Travel across all searchable attributes.

I could make from a facet, and send Travel as the query and then facetFilters[from:John] but if the from value is "John Smith" it won't be a hit. Facets have to be perfect matches.

I would appreciate any help on this and am happy to provide more clarification where necessary.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 461

Answers (1)

Jerska
Jerska

Reputation: 12042

What you could do would be to create an index containing your users. When the input contains a trigger string (like "from:"), you could have an autocomplete search into these and then add them to the final query as facet.

An example of an use-case pretty similar can be found in the Autocomplete In a Textarea which is implementing a twitter-like mention system.

Mixing this with a regular query you'd have done otherwise could be a fit.

Upvotes: 1

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