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title: Allow searching for ACFs
slug: editorial/allow-searching-for-acfs
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createdAt: 2024-12-19T12:14:03.362Z
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## Summary

ACFs can be configured in the Hub to be indexed for search.

## Description

ACFs can be configured in the Hub to be indexed for search. When publishing a content, all values of the selected ACFs are concatenated and published into a new field "customSearchTerms" and then indexed by the indexing service.
This new field can then be included for full-text searches in the Catalog-API using a new enum value "CUSTOM\_TERMS" for searchFields.

## How to configure

Please see this Video for a walkthrough of the setup:

[https://www.loom.com/share/51669e9cea324405885bc3c8ca07d65c?sid=0de42c40-e066-4d40-8cc7-94b541a30c84](https://www.loom.com/share/51669e9cea324405885bc3c8ca07d65c?sid=0de42c40-e066-4d40-8cc7-94b541a30c84) 


### Example setup (making image titles searchable)

- Login to the Hub as Admin
- Navigate to `ACF > Field Groups > Create a new field group` OR edit an existing field group
- Create the following items
  - a) an ACF field with type "image" and type in "title" in field "Index fields" 
  - b) an ACF field with type checkbox (fill out available checkboxes in "choices" field, e.g. 'checkbox 1 : Value 1'). Then type in "checkbox\_feld" in field "Index fields" 
- Save your changes
- Create an article, scroll down and find the image ACF field
- a) upload an image and check the title of the image in the media library (e.g.: *apple)*
  b) search for the created checkbox field and hit the checkbox
- Publish the article
- a) hit the query with search term "apple"
  b) hit the query with search term "checkbox 1"
  -> query shows exactly 1 post as result 

:::hint{type="warning"}
This only affects posts that are published after the configuration has been setup. If you want this to work for all already existing articles in a Hub, it is necessary to republish all of them via Bulk-Publish.  
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:::hint{type="danger"}
It is not allowed that the same ACF field name is used in more than one field group, a warning will be displayed.
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