SuggestionOption Class

Options that narrow record and article suggestion results returned from a call to System.Search.suggest(String, String, Search.SuggestionOption).

Namespace

Search

SuggestionOption Methods

The following are methods for SuggestionOption.

setFilter(knowledgeSuggestionFilter)

Set filters that narrow Salesforce Knowledge article results in a call to System.Search.suggest(String, String, Search.SuggestionOption).

Signature

public void setFilter(Search.KnowledegeSuggestionFilter knowledgeSuggestionFilter)

Parameters

knowledgeSuggestionFilter
Type: KnowledgeSuggestionFilter
An object containing filters that narrow the search results.

Return Value

Type: void

Usage

1Search.KnowledgeSuggestionFilter filters = new Search.KnowledgeSuggestionFilter(); 
2filters.setLanguage('en_US'); 
3filters.setPublishStatus('Online'); 
4filters.setChannel('app'); 
5
6Search.SuggestionOption options = new Search.SuggestionOption(); 
7options.setFilter(filters); 
8
9Search.SuggestionResults suggestionResults = Search.suggest('all', 'KnowledgeArticleVersion', options); 
10
11for (Search.SuggestionResult searchResult : suggestionResults.getSuggestionResults()) {     
12  KnowledgeArticleVersion article = (KnowledgeArticleVersion)searchResult.getSObject();   
13  System.debug(article.title); 
14}

setLimit(limit)

The maximum number of record or article suggestions to retrieve.

Signature

public void setLimit(Integer limit)

Parameters

limit
Type: Integer
The maximum number of record or article suggestions to retrieve.

Return Value

Type: void

Usage

By default, the System.Search.suggest(String, String, Search.SuggestionOption) method returns the 5 most relevant results. However, if your query is broad, it could match more than 5 results. If Search.SuggestionResults.hasMoreResults() returns true, there are more than 5 results. To retrieve them, call setLimit(Integer) to increase the number of suggestions results.
1Search.SuggestionOption option = new Search.SuggestionOption();
2option.setLimit(10);
3Search.suggest('my query', 'mySObjectType', option);