#Search translations

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thick snow
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Hello, all my collections have translated fields. And just now, after setting up a big datamodel, I discovered that Directus search does not search translations. Is that true or I have misconfugured something?
I tested it via data studio and via api.
Search via api:
https://db.dl.tlu.ee/items/people/?search=translated
Using filters it works, but that would require massive dev work as there hundres of different fields.
https://db.dl.tlu.ee/items/people/?fields=*.*&filter[_and][0][_and][0][translations][comments][_contains]=translated

thorn starBOT
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green tree
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are you restricted to rest? you could use GraphQL but the results wouldn't be "clean" and ready for use

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if you need rest, you'll need two requests, one for people and one for people_translations

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fragment PeopleFields on people {
    id
    status
    people_first_name
    people_last_name
}

fragment SearchInPeople on Query {
  found_in_people: people(search: $search) {
    ...PeopleFields
  }
}

fragment SearchInTranslations on Query {
  found_in_translations: people_translations(search: $search) {
    comments
    people_id {
      ...PeopleFields
    }
  }
}

query ($search: String!) {
  ...SearchInPeople
  ...SearchInTranslations
}
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I couldn't test in your server, for some reaason it's giving me 500 and inspection isn't showing people, but it would be something like that

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then you can query with {"search": "mysearch"} variables

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the annoying part is that you still need to define fields you want to return, so 🤷

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I'd go with two search requests if search is all you need

thick snow
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thank you for you replay! will check