Ensure that Coveo Machine Learning query suggestions are requested

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Developer System Administrator

When users access your search interface, they likely type a query in the search box. To provide the best possible search experience, you should ensure that your implementation leverages Coveo Machine Learning (Coveo ML) Query Suggestion (QS) models.

Depending on the Coveo technology that you use to build your search interfaces, see:

Note

If your implementation doesn’t rely on any of these Coveo search UI libraries, see Providing Coveo Machine Learning query suggestions.

Access your browser’s network monitoring tool

  1. Open your web browser’s developer tools.

    Note

    The examples in this article use the Google Chrome developer tools. For browser-specific information, see:

  2. Select the Network tab.

    Tip

    You can filter out irrelevant requests by selecting XHR on the Filter bar of the Network tab.

    Select XHR in the filter bar

Test query suggestions

  1. Access a page in which you integrated a Coveo search box.

  2. Access your browser’s network monitoring tool.

  3. Start typing a query in the search box.

    In the network monitoring tool, under the Name column, you should see a request whose path contains /rest/search/v2/querySuggest for every keystroke.

    Query suggestions in a search interface | Coveo

  4. Click the latest /rest/search/v2/querySuggest request.

    In the Response tab, you should see the currently displayed query completions.

    View query suggestions in event response | Coveo
Note

Coveo ML QS must be leveraged in your search interface for /rest/search/v2/querySuggest requests to be displayed under the Name column of your developer tools.