Meilisearch: Placeholder or Browse Search

Created on 28 Nov 2019 · 4Comments · Source: meilisearch/MeiliSearch

Allow users to request /search without ?q parameter (or with an empty string).

The general idea behind this PR, is to create a kind of placeholder when the end-user has not yet done any search.

It will also use the power of filters, facets filters and custom rankings rules to show the most relevant responses without query.

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qdequele

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I found a temporary workaround for this problem. You can add a column to your index for each document on where you can match when you have no q / search string.

for example i've added a column named 'salt' and i fill him with '^^'. When i want to search with filters but without a search string i can search on '^^' and i get all of the results.

note: you have to use a string in your salt that is not used when you have a search string because otherwise every record will match when you dont want to.

unknownhasher on 23 Apr 2020

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This is very usefull!

unknownhasher on 23 Apr 2020

I found a temporary workaround for this problem. You can add a column to your index for each document on where you can match when you have no q / search string.

for example i've added a column named 'salt' and i fill him with '^^'. When i want to search with filters but without a search string i can search on '^^' and i get all of the results.

note: you have to use a string in your salt that is not used when you have a search string because otherwise every record will match when you dont want to.

unknownhasher on 23 Apr 2020

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This would be immensely useful!