Hi,
There is an open feature request for defining multiple triggers for a best bet as it isn't simple to achieve currently.
There are two options you can use to create a best bet with multiple triggers (three if you include the one you mentioned about repeating the best bet with different triggers).
Use a regex trigger for your best bet.
This uses a regular expression to match against the search and trigger the best bet. You can list multiple triggers in here but regular expression syntax is complicated.
If you wanted to trigger your best bet using:
- example
- example2
- another example
You would need to use a regular expression similar to:
\bexample\b|\bexample2\b|\banother\s+example\b
If you don't know about regular expressions:
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\b indicates a word boundary and should be put at the start and end of each word (otherwise you'll match substrings within a word.
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| is used to delimit the keywords (it's an OR in the regular expression)
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\s+ indicates that there are 1 or more whitespace characters
Use curator do define your best bets
Curator can also be used to define your best bets (which are actually a special type of curator rule behind the scenes). The curator interface natively supports setting multiple triggers, and for a best bet you need to use the display an advert option.
However, if you use curator to produce your best bets you will may need to amend your search template or code that displays the best bets to also handle the advert curator assets. The default template will display these, however I'm not sure off hand if they are displayed in the same manner as best bets as best bets have a special flag on then to say this is a best bet.
I hope this helps a bit. I've also updated the feature request ticket to indicate that this has been requested again.
