I'm sending the following params to Typesense `/documents/search`:

%{
  "enable_highlight_v1" => "false",
  "facet_by" => "available_majors.area_of_study,available_majors.major_name,available_sports.sport_name",
  "facet_return_parent" => nil,
  "filter_by" => "is_main_campus:true && is_operating:true",
  "max_facet_values" => 1500,
  "page" => 1,
  "per_page" => 30,
  "q" => "Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University",
  "query_by" => "name,alias",
  "sort_by" => "undergraduate_total_count:desc"
}

I have a document with

"name": "Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University"

but the resulting set does not include it. It includes six documents with various partial matches:

highlight: %{
  name: %{
    snippet: "<mark>University</mark> of South <mark>Alabama</mark>",
    matched_tokens: ["University", "Alabama"]
  }
}
...
highlight: %{
  name: %{
    snippet: "<mark>University</mark> of North <mark>Alabama</mark>",
    matched_tokens: ["University", "Alabama"]
  }
}
...
highlight: %{
  alias: %{
    snippet: "Northeast, NACC, Northeast <mark>Alabama</mark> State Junior College, Northeast <mark>Alabama</mark> State Community College",
    matched_tokens: ["Alabama", "Alabama"]
  },
  name: %{
    snippet: "Northeast <mark>Alabama</mark> Community College",
    matched_tokens: ["Alabama"]
  }
}

Can someone explain what's going on here? I'd expect the search engine to prioritize exact matches, followed by partial matches. Do I need to configure the parameters differently?

"sort_by" => "undergraduate_total_count:desc"

Essentially overrides the default sorting by text relevance, and uses this field to do a hard sort

@Jason Bosco I changed the

sort_by

but the result is the same:

%{
  "enable_highlight_v1" => "false",
  "facet_by" => "available_majors.area_of_study,available_majors.major_name,available_sports.sport_name",
  "facet_return_parent" => nil,
  "filter_by" => "is_main_campus:true && is_operating:true",
  "max_facet_values" => 1500,
  "page" => 1,
  "per_page" => 30,
  "q" => "Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University",
  "query_by" => "name,alias",
  "sort_by" => "_text_match(buckets: 10):desc,undergraduate_total_count:desc"
}

Could you share the full JSON document for the record with

"name": "Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University"

?

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That record doesn't have a field called

is_main_campus

or

is_operating

which you've used in the

filter_by

expression. So it doesn't match the filter criteria provided and is not being returned because of that

Ah crap, nice catch. It turns out we had a bug earlier in the pipeline that resulted in these fields not getting added to some documents. Thanks!