Odd hashtag search results

[cspotcode]

Problem to Solve

Adding hashtags, searching for pairs of hashtags, and re-scanning while re-submitting my search query to see updated results, seems to get search results into a confusing state.

I've created 4 lines with different combinations of hashtags on a page, shown in screenshot below. At first I tried searching for #foo #bar to verify that search would only show me the line with both hashtags, not the lines with a single hashtag.

Then I added the line with #baz, re-ran the scan, and searched for #baz. This screenshot shows the search results. The red arrows show which paragraph is highlighted when clicking each search result.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Add to a document:

#foo
#bar
#foo bar

2. Scan for hashtags.
3. Search for #foo #bar
4. Append to document:

#baz

6. Scan for hashtags.
7. Search for #baz

Expected Behavior

I was hoping that searching for #foo #bar would show a single search result: the paragraph with both hashtags #foo and #bar.

I expected that searching for #baz would show a single search result: the paragraph with the hashtag #baz.

I expected that the hashtags shown in search results would match those on the page. But instead I see the link to the #bar paragraph showing #foo #bar in the search results pane.

Screenshots

Environment (if applicable)

• OneNote Version: O365 64bit 16.0.17531.20152
• OneMore Version 6.3.1

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[cspotcode]

This might be two bugs in one issue, and sorry the issue title isn't more descriptive, I wasn't entirely sure how to describe this behaviour.

[stevencohn]

I'm unable to reproduce the mismatched links to paragraphs but otherwise, it's working as intended.

Hashtags and searching for them is described on the onemoreaddin.com wiki here.

Searching for #foo #bar is the same as #foo and #bar. You can use the or operator as well.

When it finds a page with your hashtags, it will also show all other hashtags on that page. It highlights direct hits in blue and "other" hashtags in gray, making it easy to find associations.

[stevencohn]

Hi @cspotcode, aside from possibly being able to order the sub-results better (showing inline sub-results in document-order), I'm unable to reproduce what you show in your screenshot - multiple sub-results of "#foo #bar" pointing to lines that don't have either #foo or #bar.

Please let me know if this is still an ongoing issue or if you have further steps that might help clarify how to reproduce. Thanks!

[cspotcode]

Thanks, I'm not sure how it happened, I think I was manually triggering the hashtag reindex a lot while I was experimenting, so maybe I got the indexer into a weird state. I haven't been using the hashtag feature lately and don't think I'll have time to attempt another reproduction. We can close this if you want. Thanks again for taking a look.

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[stevencohn]

I'll keep it open to look into the ordering of sub-items. Thanks!