Hi,
We have an unexpected (empty) value in a filte...
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Jan Willem Hoogstraten
03/14/2023, 2:51 PMHi,
We have an unexpected (empty) value in a filter. The filter shows 4 options with their respective label, but there is one value without a label and a count of 28 results. But if you filter by this empty filter value, then we don’t get any hits. How is this possible?
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Kishore Nallan
03/14/2023, 3:14 PMI think that value is a non-space unicode character. So there is a byte there but just not visible. Since the value is indexed by Typesense as a facet, it's showing up, but during actual text search we skip such special characters unless explicitly added in the
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Jan Willem Hoogstraten
03/14/2023, 3:19 PMHow do we get rid of this facet/value in the filter?
Jan Willem Hoogstraten
03/14/2023, 3:22 PMI can’t see where it’s coming from
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Kishore Nallan
03/14/2023, 3:22 PMGo through the
source_abbreviationKishore Nallan
03/14/2023, 3:24 PMOr you can try doing this query:
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"filter_by": "source_abbreviation:!= [WP29, EDPB, CIEU, GDPR]"Kishore Nallan
03/14/2023, 3:24 PMHopefully that will fetch affected docs.
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Jan Willem Hoogstraten
03/14/2023, 3:33 PMThanks I will try checking for bad values first