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Collating Search Results from Different Collections.

TLDR Patrick inquired about collating search results on different collections based on text_match value. Jason confirmed it's possible, but must be done client-side.

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Jul 11, 2022 (15 months ago)

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Patrick

10:19 PM

Hi, is it possible to collate results between searches of different collections based on the text_match value?

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Jason

11:00 PM

Yup, but you will have to do this on the client side, with the results from a multi_search request

Jul 12, 2022 (15 months ago)

Patrick

01:22 AM

Awesome, thanks!

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