Searching by field instances in Craft 5

[piotrpog]

In Craft 5, we have an option to use multiple instances of specific field in field layout. However, this seems to have broken search element query method when it is used like this: search('fieldInstance::some-value'), as described in docs here.

This is probably due to the fact the fact that in the searchindex db table, values of multiple instances of specific field are stored in single row for each element instead of using separate rows.

Are there any plans to allow searching by field instances? I know we can also just query like this craft.entries.fieldInstance('some-value'), but as far as i know, this method is not as performant as using search.

[brandonkelly]

We have a PR with per-instance search support (#13991), but I’m concerned about performance, so need to do some testing before merging it in.

[piotrpog]

@brandonkelly
Any news about this?

[brandonkelly]

Nothing yet, sorry.