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Multi-Language Search Attribute in Typesense

TLDR Tugay is considering multi-language search on their platform and consulted with Kishore Nallan regarding their issue. Kishore Nallan directed them to a related typesense issue.

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Tugay

08:59 AM

Also I have another question we are trying to enable multi language search for our platform but when user adds a new language we need to update all documents with new search attribute such as {"search": "Default Product Name", "search_de": "Product name in deutsch", ...}but we want to use default search attribute if there is no search_de exists in document instead, in this way we don’t need to update all documents do you have a suggestion to resolve this issue or should we have to update all documents?

09:05

Tugay

09:05 AM

or will you consider adding this feature to typesense in future?

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Kishore Nallan

09:08 AM

Is it the case that you want to fallback to a generic (maybe english) field when a language specific field does not exist in a document?

09:09

Kishore Nallan

09:09 AM

Is it possible for one document to have a language specific field but another one not to have it? Tugay

Tugay

09:12 AM

yes to prevent that we are automatically adding new search_de field to all documents with same default search value then user updates search_de for specific documents if he wants to

Kishore Nallan

09:14 AM

This will require some kind of special syntax during query time, which can do something like use this field if it exists or use another default field

09:15

Kishore Nallan

09:15 AM

There was a very similar ask yesterday here: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/405#issuecomment-946634089

Tugay

09:15 AM

like query_by=searche_de|search,brand right?

Kishore Nallan

09:19 AM

Right. Can you please add your use case as a comment to the github issue above? We will have to arrive at a syntax that can cover all these cases.

Tugay

09:20 AM

Of course adding it 👍

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