db search not only title and post but also tag name

[Sebastián Cisneros]

So, let's say I create a new Topic, and set as tag for that topic "development" . In the title and in the body I don't write the word "development'.

If I search 'development' that topic wont appear in the results.

How can I make it that the search results also searches in the tags, or how can I make the tags to be indexed so the search finds that topic?

[baris]

Once https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/9976 is done you can do something like below using filter:search.query

myPlugin.filterSearchQuery = async (hookData) => {
		if (hookData.index === 'topic') {
			// split the search term into multiple tags 
			const tags = String(hookData.content).split(' ');
			
			const tidsArray = await Promise.all(tags.map(async (tag) => {
				// for each tag get the topics tagged by it
				if (hookData.cids.length) {
					return await Topics.getTagTidsByCids(tag, hookData.cids, 0, -1);
				}
				return await Topics.getTagTids(tag, 0, -1);
			}));
			hookData.ids = hookData.ids.concat(_.uniq(_.flatten(tidsArray)));
		} 
		return hookData;
	};

This will include all topics tagged by your search query in the results of the actual search. However this won't work until we close the above issue.

barisusakli created this issue in NodeBB/NodeBB

closed filter:search.query/filter:topic.search do not return the data passed in #9976

[Sebastián Cisneros]

@baris another "solution" / hack I though is this:

to hook into the post save action/filter , and add at the end of the body of the post a div or parragraph like this

'<p class="list-of-tags">tag1, tag2, tag3</p>'

and hide by css this element

this way the search engine may index the tags, right?

[baris]

Yeah if you put the tags in the content of the posts they will get indexed and search should find them, keep in mind the body of the posts are searched when you search in "posts" so if you are only searching for titles they wont show up.