I’m writing a plugin which stores some extra data against each user (similar to discourse-user-notes, but not staff-only), and would like to be able to search against this. Presumably this involves patching something in lib/search.rb. I’m aware the Algolia search plugin overrides what appears in th…

You can extend search from your plugin, for example you could add an advanced filter like this: require_dependency 'search' if Search.respond_to? :advanced_filter Search.advanced_filter(/with:video/) do |posts| posts.where("posts.cooked LIKE '%<video %'") end end The above will…

Yes, you can use an advanced keyword in the search popup as well as the full page search.

[image] pmusaraj: if Search.respond_to? :advanced_filter We don’t really need to carry this protection anymore, that api has been in place for a real long time.

On the subject, will PluginStore scale well here? I imagine this’ll lead to a lot of full scans (in the absence of a LIKE-friendly index on keys), so would it be better to create a 1-1 table for the extra user data?

PluginStore is to be avoided, roll out tables for your plugin.

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snoopdouglas (Doug Thompson) July 8, 2020, 7:14pm 3

Nice. Does adding an advanced filter mean that these results will also appear in a general (non-advanced-filter) search?

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