How to implement recent search in Hybris 1808

[former_member704915]

Hello! We have a requirement to implement "recent search" for search box. As soon as a user clicks on the search box, a drop down should appear showing the recently searched products by the user. Is there any OOTB support for this? If not, any suggestions how to implement this?

[former_member704915]

Any suggestions?

[former_member610084]

Create a new itemtype named lastSearches or similar and then create a one to many relation with the customer to this object, that way every customer will be related to n search queries. You should also create the pojo (data) and extend the customer populator to populate this fields.
Then create a facade that receive the search query as a parameter and creates a new lastSearchesModel and associate it with the customer who made the sarch. You can call the facade at the beggining of the the search page controller just before the search, or even better, before the search if it returned more than one result. You can customize this facade as much as you want to take care only for the last n searches or any logic you need. This way you will have each customer related with their last search terms.

Then you can create a js that calls by ajax to call a custom controller that retrieves the customer and then his last saved queries and show it on the search box.

[Former Member]

Hi Abhijit ,

I am unsure of OOTB Solutions ,

But I would store a attribute in session using java.util.Stack Data type ,

Each and every search add the Search String into the stack ,

You can have a AJAX call to pick the top few from session attribute ,

Hope this helps ,

Arun

[Former Member]

You can enable SOLR Statistics collection: https://help.hybris.com/1811/hcd/8b45d6de86691014ba4fc33767ce42e2.html

Once you have it enabled. You could query the DB on every search to query the first 3 queries from that table.

[former_member704915]

This doesn't help.