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Typesense Multi-Field Partial Search Query

TLDR Santiago seeks help for multi-field partial search on Typesense, but Jason says it is not yet supported and requests adding a use-case comment to an open feature request.

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Santiago

07:51 PM

Hi all, thanks for typesense, great tool, I'm using it for a web/mobile app using Flutter and Firebase, the only issue we have is that we want to be able to search on multiple fields at the same time (say firstName, lastName, email, etc) with partial search (for example: firstName: "San", lastName:"sant", email: "sant") should return my user Santiago de los Santos). I can only do exact searches on multiple fields. My work around, that works on small scale, is to make one query per field then do local pagination, but this isn't a posibility once we scale. Any way of doing multi partial search?

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Jason

07:58 PM

Typesense doesn’t support this at the moment, but there’s an open feature request: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/561

Could you add the use-case you mentioned above as a comment to the issue?

Santiago

07:59 PM

Thank you Jason, I will

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