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Hi @athlonUA, that's good question.
What first comes to my mind is using proper analyzers to tell elasticsearch how to process and store your data internally:

• https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-text-analysis-part-1
• https://tryolabs.com/blog/2015/02/25/elasticsearch-analyzers-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-custom-filters/

Are you using it for showing standard results or for auto-complete ?

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@cigolpl you mean this relates only to elasticsearch configuration? I use it for auto-complete and generally to searching

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@athlonUA I believe it could be configured also in ItemsAPI configuration. I will make same tests on my local machine.

What you want to do is pattern searching ? I mean for:

• j it shows all results which contains j i.e jeans
• je it shows all results which contains je etc

or plural searching:

• for phone and phones it shows the same results ?

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@cigolpl only pattern searching

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@athlonUA could you see if that works for you ?

• http://example.com/api/v1/products?query_string=your_field_type:/*jean*/

(more details here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html#_regular_expressions)

I believe it should works but I am afraid it can be slow.

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@cigolpl as i correctly understood in the example above your_field_type means the concrete field like name or category? Is it hard to implement this regular expression /*something*/ directly in api and to search the data through all the fields (like query value)?

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Hi @athlonUA, yes it works only for one specific field :(

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By the way - I consider writing additional functionality for autocomplete / suggesting in ItemsAPI using
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-suggesters.html

I am making some research already based on nice examples and on experience with my websites http://baymard.com/blog/autocomplete-design.

I hope you could also benefit from that in the future if I could accomplish that

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