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Worlds UI: Allow match partial match when searching for a world or world author #1504

Open Hayden-Fluff opened 3 years ago

Hayden-Fluff commented 3 years ago

I've encountered this a few times now, but whenever I search for a world I always have a hard time trying to remember what I need to search, since Neos needs at least one complete term to match a search sometimes trying to remember that term is difficult, and when I want to search from the author, I may not remember how to spell their username, therefore can't search for worlds by them.

Having an option for search results to show with a partial match to the search terms would help in this case and would make world searching a load more convenient and probably quicker.

shiftyscales commented 3 years ago

Partial search matching is a planned feature, but requires the addition of a search indexing service.

One of the potential options Frooxius had been investigating is Azure Cognitive Search.

Frooxius commented 3 years ago

The UI itself already does partial matches, but the cloud search backend doesn't support it. Like Shifty mentioned, that's going to be handled by Azure Search service, but that's additional monthly cost and time required for integration.