New index - values and labels

Nuno Aguiar

Posted on 13/10/2015 17:34:42

Hi,

We have a webshop where we need to index a few multi-select fields. The problem is that we need to index not only the values, but also the labels assign to it. Can we do that without having to create 2 seperate fields (1 to store values and another to store labels assigned to those values)?

Basically we need to mimic what we have for groups, where we index both the groupIDs and groupNames, but based on a product category field

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar

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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 16/10/2015 15:18:23

Hi Nuno

Could you give an example. Not sure I understand what. Do you want values and labels in the same field in the indexed document?

Nuno Aguiar

Posted on 16/10/2015 18:36:04

Hi,

I have a product category field called "Composers" as a list box. Example:

Option Name/Label	Option Value
Nuno Aguiar	C00123
Nicolai Pedersen	C00321

Since the values are C00123 and C00321, that's what's being indexed, but we want people to search for "Nuno Aguiar" not C00123. This is representative for a number of fields and we might need C00123 as well for other purposes.

So I would need to have both Nuno Aguiar and C00123 to be indexed. Is that possible? I guess not, but probably something for 8.7.1?

Makes sense?

Nuno Aguiar

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 17/10/2015 12:33:36

Hi Nuno

Then you already have a field in the index called variantoptions (containing the C00123 numbers) and you also have a field called "Composers" (name of your group) with the names in an array...

BR Nicolai

Nuno Aguiar

Posted on 19/10/2015 10:36:17

Hi Nicolai,

Yes, because depending on the project and type of data, we might need to search for values or their labels/names. If that were possible to index (based on the language), would be awesome.

Currently the only workarounds I see are not perfect:

Use the names as values (unless they have spaces and special characters
Use a different field to store the names ("duplicate" data in the DB and/or having the customer to fill the same info twice if does not come through integration)

Does that make sense?

Best Regards,

Nuno Aguiar

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 19/10/2015 11:00:16

Hi Nuno

You can search for variant names (i.e. Red, Black etc.) in the context language using the variantoptions field. See dump 1 + 2. The index contains the names of the variant in that field, see Luke dump. Setup the search for that field i.e. with the free text field.

When doing facets on that same variant group (Color), you use the variantgroup field - see dump 3.

In that way your facets will search using the value (VO1 etc.) and free text will search using the labes (Red, Black etc.)