Adding Synonym Sets to Help Center search for Guide

I love this idea! thanks for sharing it, Andrew.

This is fantastic! Thank you!

Awesome! Thank you, Andrew!

Finding lots of misspellings in my search results, so I wanted to give this a try. I added it to my JS, but still not getting the synonym results. 

Any tip on what I might have done wrong?

//Synonyms

$(document).ready(function() {
InitializeSynonyms()
});

var synonymsets = new Array();
function NewSynonymSet(key, synonyms) {
var synonym = new Object();
synonym.primary = key;
synonym.keywords = synonyms;
synonymsets.push(synonym);
}

function ChangeSearch(val)
{
var q = $(val).val();
var query = q.toLowerCase().split(' ');
for (var i = 0; i < query.length; i++) {
for (var x = 0; x < synonymsets.length; x++) {
var primary = synonymsets[x].primary;
var keywords = synonymsets[x].keywords;
if ($.inArray(query[i], keywords) > -1) {
query[i] = primary;
}
}
}
var newQuery = '';
for (var i = 0; i < query.length; i++) {
newQuery += ' ' + query[i];
}
$('#query').val(newQuery.substring(1));
}

function InitializeSynonyms() {
//always lowercase and can handle misspellings too.
//Enter as many of these lines below as needed with different synonym sets
NewSynonymSet('receiving', ['recieving', 'receivings', 'recievings',]);
NewSynonymSet('commission', ['commissions', 'comission', 'comissions', 'commision', 'commisions']);

$('#query').on('keyup', function () {
ChangeSearch(this);
});
$('#query').on('paste', function () {
ChangeSearch(this);
});
}

//End synonyms

Active Feature Request (please vote):

Feature Request: Add the ability to add Synonym Sets to Help Center search for Guide

@Andrew Schreiner

I just posted a Feature Request for this at the link below. If you would like to see this feature please head over there and show your support. Please make sure to add an upvote and comment even if it is simply a "+1"

Also, you may consider adding it to your post to get the feature request more visible.

https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360046768394-Feature-Request-Add-the-ability-to-add-Synonym-Sets-to-Help-Center-search-for-Guide

Hi all,

I am currently trying to solve the same challenge, especially with misspellings.

I have added the above code to our script.js on the Guide site, but it seems to only work for one of the "synonyms" in my test list. I added a few synonym lines below the sample ones, as follows, but it only works for the 2nd one (Sleep), when I search for "slep" on the HC. The others all say "No results" when searching. I made sure that articles exist for the primary words. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Thanks in advance!!

   NewSynonymSet('pre-authorisation', ['preauth', 'pre-auth']);
   NewSynonymSet('sleep', ['sleeep', 'slep']);
   NewSynonymSet('physiotherapy', ['physiotheraphy', 'Phisiotherapy']);
   NewSynonymSet('parents', ['parants', 'perents']);