Refine Search Using Match Item Number and Additional Filter Operators

Hi, everyone. Today, I will be going over the new feature of refining the search using match item number and additional filter operators. In this feature, you can search for exact items or multiple items using the match item number filter. The filter is displayed under the search field. This feature helps your business by reducing the multiple interactions of search and filters to find an item by matching the complete item number.

It also narrows down the search results by using the operators on attributes that use the list of values. This feature helps ensure search only returns item numbers that the user has searched for. I will now be going into the demo. This feature is for the new search mechanism that provides the user with exact searches in the item index.

The user will be able to search for a part number, and the page will return the items of that exact part number. This update will help the search engine find the part number easier no matter what special characters are in that part number. This feature will also allow the user to paste a set of part numbers in the search bar.

In order to tell the search engine that you want to search for an exact item number, you need to toggle the new match item number, filter chip. This filter chip signals to the backend that the user wants to conduct an exact search. From this spreadsheet, I'll take the first item which has a hyphen the item number.

If I search for this item without toggling the filter chip, the search will return multiple items that aren't exactly what the user would be looking for. Because of this hyphen, it breaks the item number into two components and searches for any items that contain 800, 1,000, and A. It also brought back items that had these components in the item description. This may not be what the user wants the search to return with.

When you search with the match item number filter chip, the search will return with the exact item name as shown on the screen. The search will be able to return the exact item name regardless of the punctuation marks the item name has. For example, if we take this item number that has a period in the item name and search for it, it will return with the exact item name.

The only issue arises when the item number has either a space, asterisk, or double quote around it. For example, in this item panel door front, when you search for it, then multiple item names come back. In this Elasticsearch, a space acts as an OR operator. Therefore, for this item, the search will start as if it's looking for panel or door or front.

To avoid this issue, all you have to do is add quotation marks around the item name. As you can see with the quotation marks, it returns with the exact item name. You can also search for large sets of items. In this data set there are 15 items. I'll go ahead and select all of them. I'll go back to the search and paste in all of these. And it comes back with all 15 of those items that I had selected previously.

For the items that have spaces or punctuation marks, I put quotation marks around the item name in the search. With this new feature, the user will be able to add the exact search filter chip to a saved search. The user will also be able to use other filter chips in addition to this exact search one.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the exact search filter chip is permanent, so it will not show up in the view. Today I went over the exact search feature in the item index. For more details you can consult the help documentation. This is the end of the demo. Thank you for watching.