Defining search results for time based queries

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Hi HH Community,

I have a quick question for you. Let’s imagine Answers is being positioned for a sporting team. Is it possible, (or is something coming on the platform roadmap) that would allow for search results to be rendered aligned to “time based” queries such as: “Final score for last game” (where “last” would infer to the most recent completed game). There could be a Game entity for example (teams played, score, date etc) in the Knowledge Graph, I’m just curious as to how Answers could work in this scenario.

I’m sure there are other similar analogies which could be aligned to other scenarios - a sports metaphor was the one which sprang to mind!

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts,

Thanks

Sam

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Hey Sam,

Great question! This sort of “aggregation query”, involving computation related to a sum, min, max, latest, earliest, etc., is not currently supported in Answers. We will make sure to follow up here if this functionality is added down the road!

Best,
DJ

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Does this include Greater Than and Less Than queries?

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Yes, those examples would also fall into the “aggregation query” category. Depending on the use case, you may be able to use sorting, NLP Filters and/or query rules to achieve similar results, but true “greater/less than” functionality is not currently supported.

Best,
DJ