"==" does not work on field search in Pro Search

[studionigh]

I have created a website much like the ExpressionEngine Add-On page. (EE 7.5.8, PHP: 7.4.33)I built the site following the article at EE University here: https://u.expressionengine.com/article/advanced-searching-with-low-search-and-ajax. I followed the article that was written using the Low Search but it works great with the Pro Search. I created a Multi-Select field just as they did for “add_on_compatibility”. They had 7 check boxes (one for each version of EE) My field has about 16 different check boxes for “add_on_compatibility” items. The problem is in the search filtering, the “==” is treated like “*=” or Contains, on this line of code:

{if pro_search_search:add_on_compatibility =="4"}checked{/if}

So if I click on a checkbox that is 4 or 14, the search results show both (because both include a 4). if I try a Tilda ~ “matches”, it does not work. Here is the code to show a checkbox:

<li>
   <input 
    type="checkbox"
    name="search:add_on_compatibility[]"
    data-action-uncheck="show-all-compatibility"
    id="EE4" 
    value="4" 
    {if pro_search_search:add_on_compatibility =="4"}checked{/if}
    />
    <label for="EE4">EE 4</label>
</li>

If there are more than 9 check boxes in the add_on_compatibility field, it will be a problem.

[intoeetive]

@studionigh can you post more of your actual template code? To me it's not 100% clear where pro_search_search:add_on_compatibility is coming from in this chunk

[studionigh]

This would be the template for Pro Search filtering (Changed from low to pro) https://github.com/ops-andy/eeu-search-favorite-tutorial/blob/main/10-partial_search_functions.html

{exp:low_search:form result_page="ajax/addon-results" form_id="addon_filter" query="{segment_3}"}
<li>
      <input 
          type="checkbox"
          name="search:add_on_compatibility[]"
          data-action-uncheck="show-all-compatibility"
          id="EE4" 
          value="4" 
          {if low_search_search:add_on_compatibility =="4"}checked{/if}
          />
      <label for="EE4">EE 4</label>
  </li>
<li>
      <input 
          type="checkbox"
          name="search:add_on_compatibility[]"
          data-action-uncheck="show-all-compatibility"
          id="EE14" 
          value="14" 
          {if low_search_search:add_on_compatibility =="14"}checked{/if}
          />
      <label for="EE14">EE 14</label>
  </li>
{/exp:low_search:form}

If I build an input checkbox with a value of '14' and click on it in the form filtering section, I will get results for entries with values of 4 and 14. I want it to filter for entries with the value of '14'.

Here is the search results template (loaded with ajax)

{if segment_3 =="" || segment_3~"#^P(\d+)$#"}
      {!-- this would match /ajax/addon-results and /ajax/addon-results/P[page number]--}

      {exp:low_search:results
          channel='add_on_store'
          limit='4'
          paginate="bottom"
      }

  {if:else}
      {!-- 
      this would match both /ajax/addon-results/[encoded query string] and /ajax/addon-results/[encoded query string]/P[page number] 
          since Low Search results tag natively knows how to handle pagination we don't need to catch pagination separately here.
      --}

      {exp:low_search:results
          channel='add_on_store'
          limit='4'
          paginate="bottom"
          keywords:mode="all"
          keywords:loose="both"
          collection="add_on_store"
          query="{segment_3}" 
          dynamic_parameters='orderby|sort'
      }
  {/if}

  {partial_search_results}

  {/exp:low_search:results}

[intoeetive]

@studionigh you can achieve the desired behaviour by adding contains_words="search:add_on_compatibility" parameter to your results tag https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/add-ons/pro-search/filters.html#contains_words