EPiServer Find Auto Suggest

Islam Hamed

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Hi,

I have a question reagrding search suggestions.

Is it possible to implement auto suggest using EPiServer Find?

I checked the Find SDK and there is an example for auto complete which is totally understandable.

I just want to know if it is possible to suggest variants without doing a search.

Thank you.

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Feb 16, 2015 21:41

David Knipe

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Hello Islam

Using Find to provide autocomplete search results is certainly possible. The code below can be used to provide a suggested list of results for Name property of the Foo type:

public JsonResult Prefix(string term)
{
    var results = client.Search<Foo>()
        .Filter(x => x.Name.PrefixCaseInsensitive(term))
        .Select(x => x.Name)
        .StaticallyCacheFor(TimeSpan.FromHours(1))
        .GetResult();

    return Json(results.Select(x => x), JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

Simply add the code above to a controller to use in your client side javascript.

David

#117286

Feb 17, 2015 0:28