Using the elastsearch-rails gem, currently I have:
response = Employee.search(
size: 20,
query: {
multi_match: {
"query" => search_terms,
"type" => "cross_fields",
"fields" => ["first_name^3", "last_name^3", "full_name^4", "email", "job_description^5", "job_title^5"]
}
}
)
What I notice is that by doing the multi-match / cross_fields search, if I search for a term that appears only once in an Employee database column (e.g., "John" would only appear in first_name, not job_description or job_title), then I get no results back. If a term, (say a job title like "lawyer" appears in more than 1 field such as job_description and job_title), I get results back. Why is this? This seems counter-intuitive.
