Default filter applied to Universal Searches

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Hi HH Community,

Is there a way for all Universal searches to have a filter automatically applied? For example, all universal searches to only search across entities in a specific Folder in the Knowledge Graph. All subsequent Verticals can then have filters applied as normal.

I was thinking this could be applied via the componentSettings property in the Index.json config file but I wasn’t too sure. Any ideas on this?

Thanks

Sam

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Hi Sam,

Thanks for your post. This is not currently possible today but definitely an interesting idea! You can today pin a set of results to Universal search which is a new Spring 21 feature. See here for more information: Default Initial Search on Universal Search

We’ll look into this idea however. Can you elaborate on the use case for this?

Thanks!
Alyssa

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Hi Alyssa,

I’m just thinking of scenarios where an organisation may be using Knowledge Graph folders to store a mix of entities by category.

For example Folder A for Category A and Folder B for Category B entities.

That organisation may perhaps need to deploy an answers search bar in a particular section of the website, (let’s say Section A and another search bar in Section B).

Each deployment of the search bar, built of the same experience/knowledge graph, can be filtered so Section A only references Category A entities (from Folder A) and so on.

I perhaps think a solution for this could be using Query Rules, where the searches could be aligned to the referring URL, i.e. my-website.com/section-a/ would influence the results? Although, a Universal Filter ID on the JS Search Bar script could be a nice addition. Any thoughts to this?

Thanks again for the reponse,

Sam