Hello!
I have a product directory, and right now the Search is only searching the text fields: name and description. That means it is not searching the data type and option set fields: category, style, brand, materials, etc.
And without that, it basically doesn’t work as a search… Anyone know of a fix for this? Is there a plugin, like Algolia that would work?
(The only ‘fix’ that I can think of is to put those fields into the description, also, so that they can be found.)
Hey there,
A real simple way to make this work is to have a field that includes everything you want to search.
So if you have a Title field and a Description field then also have a separate field for Title + Description. It doesn’t need to be displayed but you can just have it saved in your database. Then when you run a search you just need to search the one field instead of having a bunch of conditionals.
I think that is the simplest way to do it. At least that was the easiest way I know at the moment, and cheapest.
Hope that was helpful! 
Is there a way to create a field that automatically equals a bunch of other fields put together?
Otherwise I’m looking for something that scales better, so that this one “hidden search field” doesn’t need to be manually updated for every change.
For example: if the title is updated, then I just update the other field as well. It’s all done at the same time. Not really done manually so to speak, but just done when saving the other fields.
I also had a way to press a button and it would update all of my previously uploaded data to make this field. Then I just pressed a button and it updated via a backend api workflow on the whole list. Didn’t take long at all. All automatic.
