Bubble and Agolia

[Al_Bundy_2000]

Hi Bubblers,

I have a simple question about Agolia. Ok, this service is very performant for searches. But… how to make this work with dynamic data ? I Mean when you insert, for exemple, a new product in you app’s catalogue via your app interface (bubble) and you want to search with Agolia from bubble, the new product must ALSO have been created in Agolia. If this is correct, it means that when you use a workflow to create a new object in Bubble you must also use a wrkflow to create the same object in agolia.

This will consume 2 wf instead of 1

Am I right or did i miss something ?

Thank you in advance for your reactions

[msgiblin]

@Al_Bundy_2000

when you insert, for exemple, a new product in you app’s catalogue via your app interface (bubble) and you want to search with Agolia from bubble, the new product must ALSO have been created in Agolia. If this is correct, it means that when you use a workflow to create a new object in Bubble you must also use a wrkflow to create the same object in agolia.

This will consume 2 wf instead of 1

This is correct!

[Al_Bundy_2000]

Thank you @msgiblin ,

So what is the real benefit of agolia ? A win on the WU realted for the searches ?

[msgiblin]

@Al_Bundy_2000

So what is the real benefit of agolia ? A win on the WU realted for the searches ?

Yes, you get faster searches, almost no WU used when searching, and more powerful search possibilities.

[mitchbaylis]

bubbles built in search is extremely limited

algolia allows fuzzy search and even organizing fields by relevance/weightings and much greater control over how/which fields are searched

it also uses an algorithm to best match misspelled and similar phrases. and you can also add synonyms and other custom rules so a search for “shoe” returns results for “heels” etc