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Logical operators in search

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Adrian Ursu Dynamicweb Employee
Adrian Ursu
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Posted on 19/05/2025 08:38:09

Hi guys,

I am trying to figure out if we can implement logical operators in search. I am talking about "+", quotes,  "&" AND, OR etc.

Every search engine has a specific way of handling these rules but I have never played around with them in our search logic.

Thank you,
Adrian


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Nicolai Pedersen Dynamicweb Employee
Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 19/05/2025 12:30:53
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Hi Adrian

Technically they are there - but the input fromt he frontend goes through the queryparser and if you have e.g. an analyzed field, the search term will also get analyzed which will remove the specical characters. So as it is now, you cannot use these in e.g. querystring ?q=bike and use ?q=bik* - because our use of Lucene will take over.

You can do some in e.g. sorting: SortBy=-NameForSort or SortBy=NameForSort which will reverse the result.

If you really want to play with it, you can query the lucene index your self - bypassing the queries in DW.

 
Adrian Ursu Dynamicweb Employee
Adrian Ursu
Posted on 19/05/2025 12:47:47
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Hi Nicolai,

Thank you. I will check with the customer and see if we need to go that far.

Probably we can add some AI search instead.

Thank you,
Adrian

 

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