ZQ Fuzzy Search & Autocomplete

Introduction

This plugin is a slightly improved version of the other Fuzzy Search & Autocomplete plugin. The plugin allows searching for not-perfect matches accounting for typos and close matches. Please be aware that the plugin works correctly only with the Input element and is not suitable for the search box element.

Supported languages:

• English (Latin Extended Additional)

• Russian (Cyrillic)

• Japanese

• Chinese

• Armenian

• Arabic

• Georgian

• Greek

• Hebrew

How to setup

Place element on the page

Set Data Type, Data Source and at least one Field To Search.

Place input on the page and set it ID

Select checkbox to match from the input box and paste your input id in the Input Box ID field

Plugin element "Search & Autocorrect"

Fields

Title	Type	Description
Data Type	Data	The type of data that will be searched for
Data Source	List of Data Type	Data Type list by which the search will be carried out
Field To Search 1	Field of Data Type	Where to find data field
Field To Search 2	Field of Data Type	Where to find data field (optional)
Field To Search 3	Field of Data Type	Where to find data field (optional)
Field To Search 4	Field of Data Type	Where to find data field (optional)
Field To Search 5	Field of Data Type	Where to find data field (optional)
Text To Match	Text	The string by which the search will be carried out
OR Set Text to Match from an Input Box	"yes"/"no"	Use input value as search string
Input Box ID	Text	Input ID
Threshold	Number	At what point does the match algorithm give up. A threshold of 0.0 requires a perfect match (of both letters and location), a threshold of 1.0 would match anything.
Case Sensitive	"yes"/"no"	Case Sensitive search
Tokenize	"yes"/"no"	When true, the algorithm will search individual words and the full string, computing the final score as a function of both. In this case, the threshold, distance, and location are inconsequential for individual tokens, and are thus ignored.
Match All Tokens	"yes"/"no"	When true, the result set will only include records that match all tokens. Will only work if tokenize is also true.
Find All Matches	"yes"/"no"	When true, the matching function will continue to the end of a search pattern even if a perfect match has already been located in the string.
Location	Number	Determines approximately where in the text is the pattern expected to be found.
Distance	Number	Determines how close the match must be to the fuzzy location (specified by location). An exact letter match which is distance characters away from the fuzzy location would score as a complete mismatch. A distance of 0 requires the match be at the exact location specified, a distance of 1000 would require a perfect match to be within 800 characters of the location to be found using a threshold of 0.8.
Max Pattern Length	Number	The maximum length of the pattern. The longer the pattern (i.e. the search query), the more intensive the search operation will be. Whenever the pattern exceeds the maxPatternLength, an error will be thrown. Don't set it too high, for performance purposes.
Exclude Terms Shorter Than	Number	Exclude all search words shorter than this value

Exposed states

Title	Type	Description
Matches	List of Data Type	List of matched things
Match Scores	List of numbers	Match scores from 0 to 1. 0 is a perfect match.
Input Box's Value	Text	Value of input box from ID

Actions

Reset input

Resets the input value with the Input Box ID entered in the element and resets all states.