Laravel Scout: only search in specific fields - laravel-scout

Question

Laravel Scout: Is there a way that I search in only a specific field?
At the moment this line is working fine:
$es = Element::search($q)->get();
But it searches title, shortdescription and description fields. I need it to only search in title field.

Answer 1

You just need to change your toSearchableArray method from your model by adding the following code:
/**
* Get the indexable data array for the model.
*
* #return array
*/
public function toSearchableArray()
{
$array = $this->only('title', 'description');
$related = $this->user->only('name', 'email');
// Customize array...
return array_merge($array, $related);
}
Then call php artisan scout:import "App\YourModel" to reindex the new records. 
Note:
$this->only('title', 'description') will search only for its title and description fields
$this->user->only('name', 'email') will also search for its name and email from a related Model
So you can retrieve the related data by adding ->load('user') in your search method like the following code:
public function search(Request $request)
{
$query = $request->get('q');
return Task::search($query)->get()->load('user');
}
UPDATE
If you're trying to retrieve the data using ->paginate() method, you must need to load the relations separately:
...
$tasks = Task::search($query)->paginate($request->get('per_page'));
$tasks->load('user');
return $tasks;
Enjoy!

Answer 2

for meilisearch this worked
Element::search('test',
function ($searchEngine, string $query, array $options) use ($filter) {
$searchEngine->resetSearchableAttributes();
$searchEngine->updateSearchableAttributes(['field_name']);
return $searchEngine->search($query, $options);
}
)

Answer 3

You can do that by adding a callback function to the scout builder instance,
Person::search($searchString)->query(function($query) {
$query->select(['title']);
})->get();

Answer 4

You can do that by adding a callback function to the scout builder instance,
Person::search($searchString)->query(function($query) {
$query->addSelect(['title']);
})->get();
Worked on laravel 7

Answer 5

If you want standard query result, but search only in a specific column (field), you can try this solution:
Element::search($query)->rule(function($builder) {
return [
'must' => [
'match' => [
'some_column_name' => $builder->query
]
]
];
});
Tested on Laravel 6, but I think it will work on later versions to...