Using Bloodhound %QUERY token multiple places

Question

I'm using bootstrap-tags-input typeahead.js and bloodhound to implement some tagging functionality on a site I'm working on.

I'm using "remote" to get data from an OData endpoint I've made and I'm using the $filter=substringof('%QUERY', Description) token in the url to find items that contains what a user writes in the tagging field.

In my datasource I return 3 properties; Id, Description, ExternalId.
Right now the only property I'm searching for results in is Description but I would like to search through ExternalId as well as those 2 properties are displaying in the suggestion dropdown.

I've tried doing like so:

/odata/EquipmentResult?$filter=substringof('%QUERY',Description) OR substringof('%QUERY',ExternalId)

I've inspected the requests using Fiddler and it shows that only the first %QUERY is actually changed into the search text while the other %QUERY does not change into the search text.

Is there a way I can add %QUERY in my url multiple times to also include ExternalId?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 29 '15 at 18:05

I also found this issue, here is my work around:

        remote: {
            url: "/odata/EquipmentResult?$filter=substringof('%QUERY',Description) OR substringof('%QUERY',ExternalId)",
            replace: function (url, query) {
                return url.replace(new RegExp('%QUERY', 'g'), query);
            }
        }

Using Bloodhound %QUERY token multiple places

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