More detail on Search input and Autocomplete please

  • Resolved xmarksthespot

    (@xmarksthespot)


    2 years, 3 months ago

    I have set up fibo so that only categories are returned in autocomplete suggestions.

    In my case, if a user types ‘london’ in the search box they are presented with:
    Hen party London
    Greater London
    British Museum London
    Natural History Museum London
    London – West End
    London Treasure hunts

    These contain 1,6,3,3,3,6 products respectively.

    1. What determines the order in which these categories appear? – as I might have expected those that begin with ‘London’ to appear first

    2. What, if anything, can I do to influence or change this order?

    3. If the user types ‘Hen London’ then no results appear. Do you only accept exact matches of consecutive characters? Or is there a way to influence or change this?

    4. If the user searches for ‘hen’ then words containing ‘hen’ are also returned. How (if at all) does the algorithm differentiate between words that start with the search characters (e.g. hen, henna) end with the search characters (e.g. then) or contain the search characters (e.g. phenol)?

    5. Is the user able to do a Boolean search?, e.g. ‘Museum OR History’; ‘London’ AND ‘Museum’

    Some of these are fairly fundamental to usability but I couldn’t find any information in the documentation – hence my questions.

    Hope you can help please.

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  • Plugin Support Kris

    (@c0nst)

    Hi @xmarksthespot

    Apologize for the late answer.

    ad 1. & ad 2. & ad 4. In FiboSearch Free we don’t have a scoring system for category searches. The order is set by WordPress get_terms() function. You can manipulate arguments by the filter: dgwt/wcas/search/product_cat/args

    ad 3. Yes, for searching in categories, FiboSearch Free only accept exact matches of consecutive character excluding case sensitivity. This also applies to being contained in another word.

    ad 5. FiboSearch doesn’t use boolean search because in autocomplete suggestions every next world should narrow search results (AND logic) instead of combining them (OR logic).

    Regards,
    Kris

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