Limit the Group Results with "Show More" option

[jsamal29]

Hi Ernest,

With grouping in vertical result, Currently users need to scroll the total no. of results ( say 500 ) to find the next Group.

Currently, our Site is grouping results by 3 categories that we believe are important. So, if the first category has 50 results, then that would mean that the user might never scroll to the 2nd or 3rd category.

Is there any way or, Can we display say 2 items from every GROUP and a SHOW MORE button action for each of the Groups. In this way we can show 2 items from every group and whichever Group the User wants, he can just click on SHOW MORE button to see that result category.

Similar to this: https://imgur.com/a/FoUxXXH

I checked for all the options but could not find any solution to this Scenario.
Can you take this as a feedback and Try to implement this in future Release of the plugin?

The stakeholders Really want this Feature because Limitless pages packed with dozens of results on each GROUP tend to turn the Prospects off. Prospect users can end up looking at the endless results and question why they even used the search function.

Can you assure us that this feature to be enabled in Future Updates of this ASP plugin.

Please Reply.

Thanks

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

I’m afraid this is not currently possible.

I can not assure this is going to be added any time soon, but we will surely do something about it. Currently the filters API is under construction, and there are few other things we need to take care of.
I will make sure to add this to the features list though.

[jsamal29]

Hi Ernest,

Yes..please add that functionality as it will solve my problem…as well as It will add much more value to the Plugin itself.

Thanks

[jsamal29]

Hi Ernest,

One more bug.
This is the screen for Live results…with the ajax loader….https://imgur.com/a/jSnX1Ju

Usually the loader normally behaves….But sometimes…when you type something and immediately hit Enter in the Search box in order to go to the RESULTS page….then the loader is not displayed and rather the 2 thick blue lines appear for some fraction of seconds….before the page is redirected to the Results page.
https://imgur.com/a/S7eFw3F

It looks ugly when user types something for Search and when he hits ENTER key, he used to see these 2 thick lines for couple of seconds.
Can you suggest something to remove this bug?

Thanks

[Ernest Marcinko]

I can’t seem to be able to replicate this, can I see this somewhere?
I assume it might be either a 3rd party styling conflict, or something similar.

[jsamal29]

This is actually a protected site and not open accessible to internet, so I cannot provide you the link.

I checked for CSS compatibility but no result.

One more thing…
I have configured the results with 3 Groupings, with Ordering options as “Relevance” primary and “Date Descending” secondary.
There is a Other Results group with all the other results from other categories are accomodated.

Now for example I searched for a term “Technology Providers”, The result is categorized such that it is appearing inside “Other Results”…its fine. But the order of the most RELEVANT result with Technology Provider as title is appearing at 4th place.The weight of Title is set as highest, but still the order is appearing as 4 instead of 1.

https://imgur.com/a/V1lsX2w

So in a nutshell, inside the “Other Results” group, the results are not ordered according to their title relevance.

This is also happening for another group as well. For a Search phrase “seyfert” the results are accumulated in a “NEWS” group. Here the result which has title as “Seyfert” is actually appearing at 2nd place whereas, the result which has the search phrase in Content is appearing at first place.

https://imgur.com/a/0zq885h

Please tell me if I am doing something wrong configuration.

Thanks

Thanks

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by jsamal29.
• This reply was modified 5 years ago by jsamal29.

[Ernest Marcinko]

This is a tough one. No matter how I tried I could not replicate, it seemed to work all right. I also checked the source, it seems to be okay as well, so this is something to do with a very specific configuration.

Can you please try using the index table engine? It should give a much better relevance calculation, and hopefully give better ordering as well.

[jsamal29]

Hi Ernest,

yes even for me, its very difficult to debug with Chrome dev tools, as this loader issue is not occuring everytime. Its like sometimes, it is happening and most times it is working perfect.

Okay now coming to the Ordering related issue..

Actually I am using Index Table….

https://imgur.com/a/TwfsaOX

Also for Ordering I have following configs..

https://imgur.com/a/cUePuJm

The issue is, even if there is a result which has Title exactly same as the Search phrase, but still, it is displayed in 3rd or, 4th place instead of first.

I just want, under each group, if a Title of a result matches the Search phrase, then it should be displayed on first place.

Thanks

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by jsamal29.

[Ernest Marcinko]

– Does it work correctly when the grouping is disabled, can you please check?
– Is the index table surely enabled, please check that as well.
– Are you using results priorities or group priority options?

[jsamal29]

Hi Ernest,

We have now taken live our site with the Search functionality enhanced by the AjaxSearchPro plugin. Surely it is adding good features to our Search experience.

We have already had a conversation earlier in this thread, but as it is important for us, so I would like to bring your attention to below.

We have enabled grouping in vertical result, which is working as expected. As per the current plugin features we are able to display results under different Groups. But currently users need to scroll all the results under a group in order to navigate to results of another group. For example – we are grouping results by 3 groups. So, if the first group has 100 results, then that means that the user might have to scroll all the 100 results to get to next Group.

So we would request you to enable some feature to display a particular no. of say 2 items from every GROUP and a SHOW MORE button each of the Groups. In this way we can show 2 items from every group and whichever Group the User wants, he can just click on SHOW MORE button to see that result category.

Similar to this: https://imgur.com/a/FoUxXXH

Can you take this as a feedback and Try to implement this in future Release of the plugin?
As most of the target prospects are coming from Search so, we really want this Feature to provide a fluid experience to our users. Limitless pages packed with dozens of results on each GROUP tend to turn the Prospects off as users don’t want to spend much time looking at the long list of results.

Can you assure us that this feature to be enabled in Future Updates of this ASP plugin?

Please Reply.
Thanks

[Ernest Marcinko]

Sure! I will take a note of this topic and see what we can do about it.
Please keep in mind, that we are currently working on multiple core updates, so this may take some time.

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