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Implementing Result Pinning in Typesense Product

TLDR Sai questioned about implementing result pinning in Typesense for a product. Kishore Nallan provided several resources and explanations to assist, ultimately suggesting the use of 'sort_by' to promote groups of objects based on an attribute.

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Jul 30, 2021 (30 months ago)

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Sai

05:45 AM

@here Hey guys we are using doing some R&D on typesense for our product , can someone help me out how to implement Result Pinning ?

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Kishore Nallan

05:47 AM

For result curation, you can use either the overrides feature or the pinned hits feature.

Overrides: https://typesense.org/docs/0.21.0/api/curation.html#curation

05:47

Kishore Nallan

05:47 AM

For pinned hits, see the pinned_hits argument description here: https://typesense.org/docs/0.21.0/api/documents.html#arguments

Sai

07:15 AM

Kishore Nallan thank you so much, itseems like pinned_hits are applied only on ID field?

Kishore Nallan

07:15 AM

Pinned hits are basically a list of documents that you want to show in a set of pre-determined positions. The documents are identified by their IDs.

Sai

07:18 AM

is there a possibility where i. can promote the doc using another field?

Kishore Nallan

07:19 AM

Can you give me an example?

07:19

Kishore Nallan

07:19 AM

You mean, use another field as the identifier for the document?

Sai

07:22 AM

lets say i have this following doc

{"id":100,"type":"p1","name":"xyz"},{"id":102,"type:"p2":"name":"abc"},
{"id":103,"type:"p1":"name":"abcd"}
{"id":104,"type:"p2":"name":"abcde"}
{"id":105,"type:"p2":"name":"abcdef"}

i want to pin p2 results first then p1

Kishore Nallan

07:23 AM

Yes, so you have to use 102 as the identifier for p2. You can't use another field, like type .

Sai

07:24 AM

oh , is there any other way to achieve this?

Kishore Nallan

07:25 AM

In your example, you have multiple p2 items -- is that the intent?

Sai

07:26 AM

so when i search for a name i want to pin p2 results on top followed by p1

Kishore Nallan

07:27 AM

You can achieve that by using sort_by if you identify p2 by numerical values (it will become some kind of weighting). There is no way to promote groups of objects based on an attribute using pinning or overrides.

Sai

07:29 AM

oh okay got it , thank you

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