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Partial String search for Vendors

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Using the NutriTube vendor as an example,

They have the following items available

NutriTube BBQ Chicken Paste

NutriTube Beef & Country Gravy Paste

NutriTube Atomic Prawn Paste

NutriTube Cosmic Ranch Paste

NutriTube Xtreme Nacho Paste

NutriTube Veggiest Vegan Paste

Bachelor Bizkit

it is not possible to tell them "I want a NutriTube veg" and get the "Veggiest Vegan Paste".

Instead we have to type, "I want a NutriTube Veggiest Vegan Paste"

It would be great if the vendors understood a partial string search. Either a begin() or mid() (or whatever the M* equivalent of those is.)

By Hek at Feb 18, 2022 1:03 PM
I haven't shopped with the paste vendor but don't they respond to plain old "vegan"?

Other vendors do respond to a whole-word substring, as long as it's unique among the items on the menu.

By beandip at Feb 18, 2022 2:15 PM
@beandip

They don't. I'm guessing it's because it's a new vendor.

Bartenders and most(?) other vendors seem to do alright with partial matches.

I know that the coders have been doing a lot of clean up and standardization over the last year.

Vendors seem like low hanging fruit for similar attention.

By Hek at Feb 18, 2022 3:36 PM
I don't know that it's a new vendor problem; I often run into issues with partial strings and vendors.

Kind of backwards from the first example, but I once requested an item from a vendor by the full name (after a unique partial string was rejected), and instead received a different item that's name was a subset of the one I asked for.

Most of the time though I run into issues like the OP described, partial strings just not being recognized by vendors (even when they are unique), necessitating using full item names.

By Blackbird71 at Feb 18, 2022 5:47 PM
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