Need to implement Article search along with product search in PLP

Experience Manager (PaaS/OnPrem)
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Hi ,
I want to implement to show both article and product results in the search page when we search <keyword/term> in the search box. Currently product search is working fine.
Can you please suggest me how to do this?

Thanks,
Ram

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Hi Ram,

Product data is searched from the non-JCR backend (e.g, brSM, or commerce backends such as commercetools or elasticpath) whereas content document are searched from JCR.
And we don’t have any built-in solution to make single search query against both JCR and external backend.
So, one option would be to add a custom command which searches documents from JCR and sets some attributes, and you can customize the rendering template to show the results together somehow.

Regards,

Woonsan

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Thanks for reply. Yes and Can we use EssentialsSearchComponent as a command because already this(documentypes search) was implemented . And also I have created searchCommand which extends AbstractStarterStoreCommand and try to get documents from JCR. Command bean is triggering but results are empty. Please share if you have any suggestions.

Thanks,
Ram

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com.bloomreach.commercedxp.starterstore.commands.AbstractStarterStoreCommand is different from HstComponent, only used in BR Accelerator (“StarterStore”), so you can’t use the EssentialsSearchComponent without converting its logic into a new AbstractStarterStoreCommand implementation.

Then I think you should debug why the result - I guess you mean the HstQueryResult right? - is empty.

Regards,

Woonsan