Hey everyone 👋 I'm currently struggling a little with the following situation: So I have a big dataset with a lot of fields, no issue searching for these with the

query_by

parameters on multiple fields. Now I want to create word-suggestions (typeahead) for that matter, no issue into creating a new suggestions index, but wondering what would be the best approach for this?

[
                            'name' => 'address.city',
                            'type' => 'string',
                        ],
                        [
                            'name' => 'address.county',
                            'type' => 'string',
                        ],
                        [
                            'name' => 'address.state',
                            'type' => 'string',
                        ],
                        [
                            'name' => 'address.street',
                            'type' => 'string',
                        ],
                        [
                            'name' => 'address.zip',
                            'type' => 'string',
                        ],
                        [
                            'name' => 'primaryServiceType',
                            'type' => 'string',
                        ],
                        [
                            'name' => 'servicingType',
                            'type' => 'string',
                        ],
                        [
                            'name' => 'serviceType',
                            'type' => 'string[]',
                        ],
                        [
                            'name' => 'title',
                            'type' => 'string',
                        ],
                        [
                            'name' => 'post_date_timestamp',
                            'type' => 'int32',
                            'sort' => true,
                        ],

The above would be all the fields I want to receive a suggestion for. So if you'd type

Maryland

for example. I might have a resource where

Maryland

is part of the title, just as much

Maryland

could be part of the street or the county... So If I start typing

Mary

I'd love to get the suggestion --> title / county / street for that matter, but weighted. I do get results, I have weighted results, but how would I display that best as a single result? Merge all the data together in array from the results I get or .. ?

The order of fields you mention in

query_by

, along with

query_by_weights

determines the ranking of the best-matched record

I'm currently doing it as follows @Jason Bosco:

const searchParameters = {
        q: searchParams?.searchQuery,
        query_by: 'title,address.city,address.county,address.state,address.street,address.zip,primaryServiceType,serviceType,servicingType',
        query_by_weights: '3,2,1,1,2,2,3,3,3',
        filter_by: searchParams?.filterQuery,
        sort_by: sortParams.type + ':' + sortParams.order,
    }

But then my results are an object that are returned following the structure I've shown above. What I'd like to do is get a single array of best search matches, without the need to loop through all the fields in the returned object ( if that is possible )

You would have to filter the fields you don’t need out of the returned

hit.document

. You could do the filtering based on the presence of a highlight for that field in

hit.highlight

. So this needs to be done client-side with the values in the API response