Fast Fuzzy Search | Bubble.io Tutorial

While Bubble offers the ability to create search functionality, it can be quite slow. Fuzzy search is a fast solution (ms response) and offers the ability to get close matches and not just perfect matches.

[bulliethepirate]

Love it. Love the way you explain very good pace when the listener needs to focus. Still fantastic when I play with 1.25 or 1.5 speed.

Thank you!

[JasonRajcok]

Thank you for making this video. The fuzzy search added a really nice feature for my site. One thing I learned playing around with it is that the fuzzy search settings icon cannot be hidden, it will break the search functionality.

[johnslater]

Greg, your explanations are always first class. God save the King.

[livingroomc]

Thank you Greg. I can't tell you how helpful this video was. It arrived like a present on Christmas morning. I really appreciate how you took us though the ENTIRE process of setting the fuzzy search up (e.g., installing the plug-in, configuring the attributes, etc.).

[philledille]

So wonderful, calm, and pedagogical style you have!

[dcjgreen]

I had some issues with this at first. Then I realised my issue - the search box or "Input Fuzzy Search" should be an 'Input' element, not a 'Search Box' element. Hopefully others find this helpful.

[commonuser]

This is a very useful search this Fuzzy Search, very fast indeed. Thank you for sharing Greg!

[dna]

Hello i was wondering if its possible to add an option set to the field search in the plugin? if yes how?

[JJ-epjj]

Can you make a tutorial on how you use Algolia for large data?

[KavkazecVnature]

Within the last couple of hours I've watched and followed 3 separate tutorials for using this plugin. It simply doesn't return any matches, although the list of the data type that I am searching through contains all of the required fields and has content in them as well. Does anyone know why this could be happening?

[smusic]

Thanks for sharing the number of items fuzzy search can handle at once. I’ve had good luck using Algolia, but it doesn’t handle searching lists of any field type unless you choose “Any field” as your search field. This can be an issue if you want to search a list of texts or another list of field types quickly, but it seems this solution would work.

[scribbles]

Field to search is not populating for me. I am using my data source successfully in my app, but for some reason, it won't show my fields in the dropdown.

[herdycen]

Does it only work if the repeating group is consisted of all the Data Type within one Table?

[omus]

I tried using fuzzy search, but ran into a problem and started wondering, if it is supposed to work just one time and if so, how could I work around that?

I am building a "create new item" menu and trying to make a closed loop of functions:
1. User types a few letters into an input.
2. Repeating group shows options, based on a search of database (via fuzzy search).
3. User picks desirable option from a repeating group and clicks on it.
4. A custom state is triggered, which stores an option a user clicked (later to be used in creating or updating a thing in a database).
5. Since I would like an input to reset (and through conditions show the option a User chose), I use a "reset input a Search & Autocorrect" function and use aforementioned conditionals to show the option a User chose.

Up until this point, everything works fine, actually loving the speed in which the fuzzy search works. But then, if a User wants to do the search again, the fuzzy search does not work. I try typing into the input and no search results are shown.
Tried not using step no 5. (I think I maybe could work around that), but still, no effect, so wondering if the fuzzy search is supposed to only work once.

Does anybody know, how to make this sort of closed loop, so the User can search and choose however many times he/she wants?

[juwanbepo]

Could you make a tutorial for a fuzzy search that references option sets and linked data types?

[calderaricaio]

Hi Greg. Can this plugin be used to search items straight from an API source? For example, when you select a non Bubble database item for instance Users in the Data Source field on this plugin, then the Field to Search options disappear, then how would you make the plugin work if the Data Source I'm using is an item like Get data from external API? Do you know if this plugin allows that kind of search?

[adimo]

@Buildcamp hello pls am working on a school project online pharmacy using bubble , pls how do i make a search were users can search for a specific drugs he want to buy and it will only display the result to him without seeing my whole inventory, like a user search not an admin search

[notjrag]

Thank you for this video, Greg. What i would like to know now is how to add filters with Fuzzy's search. Hoping you can create another tut for this!

[annelee]

Great tutorial! Note: "this element visible on page load" has to be checked, otherwise the search won't work.

[ThomasAPREA]

Do you know how to put a text on the page that says " NO RESULT", for example, if the result of the fuzzy search matches with nothing ?