How to boost an entity based on a query lenght

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Hi there, I am trying to boost an entity based on the lenght of the query.

To be more specific.

MBE is a shipping company, they offer different products but among all shipping.

We cannot enter their DB for picking a specific traffic code, so we created a Product card for Tracking. However users go to theri website and look for the shipping code.

Their code have a specific numeric lenght 398464024740 → 12 numerical digits.

I would like to add a rule so that if the query is 12 numerical digits long, the product card “Track Shipping” will be boosted.

Can we do it?

Thank you.

Lucas B.

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Hi Lucas,

We certainly can do it! You can use query rules, specifically regex, to target specific numeric strings to boost a certain entity.

To target a 12-digit string, your regex expression is: \b\d{12}\b. You can find a breakdown of this regex here.

If using the JSON editor your rule would look something like:

“rules”: [
{
“criteria”: {
“searchTermMatchesRegex”: \b\d{12}\b
},
“actions”: [
{
“actionType”: “BOOST_ENTITIES”,
“entityIds”: [
“Product-0”
],
“verticalKey”: “faqs”
}
]
}
]
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Thank you Henry.

While the query is correct, if I put it in Json I get the following error.
“Invalid escape character in string.”

  • I have modified all quotations to match the once in our system.

Do you know what it could be?

Thank you.

Lucas B.

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Hi Henry.

I have just tested it and it seems that our system accepts the rejex with 2 back-slashers \b\d{12}\b