Exact match in advanced search

[Lina]

Using the advanced search page sidebar, if search text is wrapped in quotes, the quotes disappear after hitting enter. However I can edit the input in the search criteria section and quotes are honored. Can someone please confirm if this is only happening to us and if there is solution?

Thank you,

Lina

[Samir Ben Sghaier]

Hi

In Fact some special characters are removed from the query, take in mind that all query are targeting an elasticSearch backend, and some elasticSearch query search rules have to be taken

Please try to use the '\' to escape some special characters, and include them literally into your query

Hope that helped you

Samir

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[Lina]

Hi Samir,

Sorry if I wasn't clear in my first post. What I'm trying to do is not searching for quotation marks but rather I want to be able to search for exact text matches. When I edit the text using the input in the search criteria area (green in screenshot) it works the way I want to find exact matches. However it doesn't do the same when I use the input in the sidebar (red in screenshot). Just wondering why there is this inconsistency and if there is some way I could make the exact text match work. (Adding backslashes unfortunately did not keep the quotes in the query.)

Thanks,

Lina

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[Lina]

Hi Samir,

Just to follow up, I found the line removing special characters as you said https://github.com/obiba/ng-obiba-mica/blob/33ff7ed34f67677ebf74e75c380f91b009d557a9/src/search/search-controller.js#L1179

This regex seems pretty restrictive to me. If I had implemented a version of the site in a different language, Chinese for example, it would strip my entire query in that language. This affects even French queries although to a lesser extend.

Do you have any plans on making this regex not so broad?

Lina

On Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 12:50:32 PM UTC-7, Samir Ben Sghaier wrote:

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