Merge custom post types into a single index

Hello @tommy94

To index two custom post types into one single index, you have to follow these steps below:
1. Create a new schema that matches both post types using cm_typesense_schema hook
2. Then format the data as per the schema using cm_typesense_data_before_entry

Here’s a sample gist for that: https://gist.github.com/sachyya/3be2d1e970684749a482320f6868fe89

Hope this helps!!!

Regards

Hi @sachyya-sachet

Thanks for the response, I have added your solution in but I do no have cpts-data as a selection to index in the typesense plugin drop down.

I have tried to hook in “cm_typesense_available_index_types” to add my index but as it’s not a post type it won’t display, do you have a solution to this?

Kind regards,
Tommy

Hi @tommy94,

Please review the following documentation on how to add custom post types to be available in the dropdown here :
https://docs.wptypesense.com/advanced-custom-post-types/
Additionally please not you will have to delete and re-index the posts once (and only once) before your schema changes can take effect.

Hi! I also need to do the same thing ??

I need to render several Collections ( seperate post types ) as 1, whithout switcher by CollectionMenu.

As I understand I need to create another Collection with all post types togeter. I managed to do that. But faced with the issue that Post on update is not pushed its changes to Typesense. So I would have to manually Delete and Index all posts after a single change on any post.

Can you please give me a hint how to push single Post changes in update?

@sbdev1stepan

Hi – this won’t be a feature in the main plugin for now.
And at the moment we are building an addon that will make this possible https://github.com/codemanas/omni-search/.

The provided addon will work but you must be mindful of the schema for the post types.

Got it! Thank you for the answer!

Do you have a timeframe for the development of this addon?

@sbdev1stepan currently we don’t have a fixed timeframe on this – as this isn’t considered part of the core feature set and we’re looking at this more as R&D – meaning the feature set has not been locked right now.

Hi @sachyya-sachet

I have followed the gist above to  index two custom post types into one single index. However, I am also having the same issues as @tommy94 in that it doesn’t appear in the index selection.

I can see digamberpradhan added a link to adding a custom post type, however this is not a custom post type it’s just a schema so how can I add and index this?

Regards
Dom

Just to add to this, I’ve attempted to add using the link above and was able to get ‘cpts-data’ to show in the selection using this code:

function cm_typesense_add_available_post_types( $available_post_types ) {
    $available_post_types['cpts-data'] = [ 'label' => 'CPT Data', 'value' => 'CPT Data' ];
    return $available_post_types;
}
add_filter( 'cm_typesense_available_index_types',  'cm_typesense_add_available_post_types');

However, if I refresh the page it disappears and if I try to Delete and Re-Index I get error “Not Found : No collection with name cpts-data found.”