Searching for multiple terms or creating aliases

[robbevp]

Hi there 👋

Thanks for this great library!

I've come across a situation where we want to show results for one term, when searching for another one. For example, if a user searches for AI, I also want to show results for Artificial Intelligence.

I'm wondering if one of the following is possible:

1. Can we create a list of custom aliases for search term?
2. Is there a way to search for two separate options at once? I've tried some common options like AI|Artificial intelligence, AI,Artificial intelligence, but none of these seem to work.

I've tried some things using the processTerm options - either by appending a term, or by replacing it - but it never fully works. In these cases results for AI itself might not give a match, since the page might not contain Artificial intelligence.

processTerm: function (term) {
  return term === "AI" ? `${term} Artificial Intelligence` : term
}

processTerm: function (term) {
  return term === "AI" ? "Artificial Intelligence" : term
}

[bglw]

Nothing for these yet! Aliases is a great suggestion, I'll track that as a new issue. Regarding searching multiple terms, #329 is the best place to leave any thoughts 🙂

[Karlstens]

The ability to have search aliases is a great idea. Perhaps it could be as simple as the user defining an alias.JSON file?

{
  "example": ["sample", "instance", "case"],
  "case": ["bag", "ticket", "support ID", "instance"],
  "ticket": ["pass", "voucher", "token", "support ID"],
  "bag": ["sack", "pouch", "case", "container"],
  "support ID": ["ticket", "help request number", "service code"],
  "instance": ["example", "occurrence", "case"],
  "container": ["holder", "carrier", "bag"]
}

However from an implementation stance, I'm not sure what dragons lie within. 🐉

[ronan-smith]

@Karlstens As Pagefind builds the index from existing pages, I feel like it would be more manageable to implement a new metadata key such as a data-pagefind-meta="alias" attribute?