Hi team 👋🏻, I wanted to ask: I have a query parameter as

Chris Schmidt

, and I’m querying by first name, last name. However I’m getting results matched just by Chris, and no matches by the lastName, so for example I would get Chris Rogers, Chris Williams etc above Christopher Schmidt, I believe this is because it’s taking it as a whole sentence instead of per word, so my question is How could I get matches both by

Chris

and

Schmidt

🙌🏻

This behavior is because Typesense first searches for

Chris Schmidt

and when it doesn’t find a full exact match, it then tries to drop words from the query (configured by

drop_tokens_threshold

) and searches just

Chris

and

Schmidt

. If you’ve configured first_name to have higher priority (based on order of fields in

query_by

) it then finds an exact match for

Chris

and prioritizes those records first in the results.

@Jason Bosco Thanks for your quick reply. I understand your explanation, however, even if I set the

weights

the same & set

prioritize exact match

to false, it would not take into account

Schmidt

& return the results for

Chris

. Do you think there’s a workaround to also take into account the second word when dropping words? Thanks added this to the Feature request, it would be awesome 🙌🏻

Could you try increasing

drop_tokens_treshold: 1000

and set

max_candidates: 1000

to see if that helps?