Author Topic: Search Optimization for closest match (Read 524 times)

emilyf · April 08, 2013, 10:37:22 am

On one of my site's running 4.3 I have the organization of 'L.L. Bean' entered in. When my employees are searching for this, some try to search for 'll bean' instead of 'l.l. bean'. Is there a way to get the search to return the closest match so that this would come up in it? Another example which I just put up on the demo site would be cases where there is a space that confuses the search box. Let's say I have an organization called 'The CT Job Rack' and 'Jobrack'. If I type in 'jobrack' I would want it to return both these, but because of the space it only returns 'Jobrack'. Are there suggestions on how to optimize for this?

In addition, I apologize if this is an overly easy question -- is there no 'legal name' search field on the advanced search form?

Thanks so much,
Emily

Michael McAndrew · April 08, 2013, 01:44:51 pm

pretty sure there is no easy / out of the box way to do this - would require a bit of tweaking of the quick search tool

emilyf · April 08, 2013, 02:24:31 pm

Thanks Michael - can you point me to documentation on how to modify that or any examples? Much appreciated!

xavier · April 08, 2013, 03:03:26 pm

This extension allows to have a custom way of fetching the contacts in the autocomplete

https://github.com/TechToThePeople/eu.tttp.qlookup

look at the custom api, you could add your own queries to remove the "." or search on the legal name or ...

https://github.com/TechToThePeople/eu.tttp.qlookup/blob/master/api/v3/Contact/Getttpquick.php

Hope this helps.

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