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Is there any way to enable/improve fuzzy matching, misspellings and searching synonyms?
I ask because right now my search tool isn’t finding results when the words I’m using have minor misspellings.
Hi!
On the General Options -> Logics & Behavior you can change the generic keyword logic, which determines how multiple phrases are matched agains the selected fields.
Synonim/spell correction is not yet availalbe, as the plugin uses the database to search. Spell correction would require to re-run the search queries in case of no results (with the spell corrected phrases), which increases the server load exponentially, to a point where it would crash. A 3rd party API is not a solution either, as they are very pricy and limited on a monthly basis.
There is a front-end instant search feature under construction, which will include a guess based ‘spell check’ module as well. Because it will run on the clients machine, it will not affect the server load in any way.For now, you can add word/character replacements/exceptions manually:
– Keyword exceptions: https://i.imgur.com/NRX70Hm.png
– Knowledge base – Replace search keywords
– Knowledge base – Remove/replace characters from search phraseI hope this helps!
Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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Ok thank you, I’ll work through this and see if I can improve search results.
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