Question on filter element/params / sort modifier or sort ranking

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Apologies if this belongs in another category.

I'm trying to accomplish a few related things. Primarily find results that match <title phrase> and then prioritize the sort if they also include <actor name>.

Eventually i stumbled upon the filters and multi params and got something sort of working:

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<[element:$param:,",",1] a:=1>|<[element:$param:,",",2] a:=2> sort:column-a

Configured as a macro optname: I can successfully do a search like `optname:"actor name", movie title` and it accomplishes what I want, mostly. I couldn't get it working without an explicit "" around the "actor name" for example <actor name> as a group for the first param so it isn't just exact matches but instead matches for both words independent of location in name. Is there a way to accomplish this?

It would be great to have some clear documentation on the whole element and param stuff as it wasn't very intuitive and I still don't 100% understand it.

Somewhat related I considered just simple searches like: one|two wouldn't it make sense to sort results by most matches? For example prioritize results that match both terms first? That would mostly accomplish my original goal (except also returning a bunch of extras just for two).

Also on a further tangent have you considered adding a vector embeddings based semantic type search ranking feature to everything?

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Is there a way to accomplish this?

Macros are really only designed to accept a single word parameter.

The quotes are required to escape the spaces:

optname:"actor name","movie title"

Consider the following filter search to check for word1 AND word2:

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<[element:$param:,",",1] [element:$param:,",",2] a:=1>|<[element:$param:,",",1] a:=2>|<[element:$param:,",",2] a:=3> sort:column-a

This will show results that contain both words higher.



Consider using name: to allow ; OR-lists:

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<name:[element:$param:,",",1] name:[element:$param:,",",2] a:=1>|<name:[element:$param:,",",1] a:=2>|<name:[element:$param:,",",2] a:=3> sort:column-a

This will allow you to search for:

optname:john;jane,"movie title"

; = OR when using name:



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