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Customizing Search Query Results in Art Collection

TLDR John asked about customizing search results for an art collection. Jason recommended using Typesense's curation feature to create overrides for each category. Clarification about adding specific fields to a "category" document was also given.

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Jun 04, 2021 (30 months ago)

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John

11:30 PM

My daily question😃: is it possible to customize part of the search query results, ignoring instantsearch.js/Typesense, adding some result(s) to the returned data? Let me give an example: my collection to be searched is a collection of arts, each one having various parameters that are queried (artnane, artcolor, etc.) and each one having one or several CATEGORIES. If I add the categories field to the query, the search results will return the products that are withing these categories and I do not want this. I would like to add a category 'card' to my displayed results, which when clicked will lead the user to the category page and list the category products from there... Is this a possibility?

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Jason

11:47 PM

Haha! Happy to answer questions.

Will this card you want to inject into the results be the same for all search results, or are you looking to essentially search for the query in the list of categories separately and display those as search results as well, in addition to the art work?

Jun 05, 2021 (30 months ago)

John

12:17 AM

I will be different from the main search results card - your second option

12:18

John

12:18 AM

What I would like is check if the query matches a category name, and if it does, inject this as the first card that will appear basically, with another template... Hmmm, seems complicated...

Jason

12:22 AM

Ah I see, you might be able to use the Curation feature: https://typesense.org/docs/0.20.0/api/curation.html

12:23

Jason

12:23 AM

Essentially, you'd want to add additional records to your collection, one for each category and have a field in each record to indicate that this is a special category record

12:24

Jason

12:24 AM

Then create an override for each category with a "contains" rule, so that if the query contains that category, it should pin that particular category record to position 1

John

05:02 PM

Looks like exactly what I was needing Jason, thank you!

06:16

John

06:16 PM

And here, just a confirmation please: there is no way I can add specific fields to such a "category" document -- I will need to fit with the fields I have defined in my schema collection, correct?

Jason

06:41 PM

Correct. But you could may be have a type field which helps you determine if a record in the results is a category record or an art record

John

07:04 PM

Sure, OK, fine!

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