Typeahead: Brand in Category Dimension Search

Hi,
I have a requirement to search for brands within a category and render those as Auto-Suggest options. e.g. If I search for Sony, I should get options as Sony in Televisions, Sony in Cameras etc where Televisions, Cameras are my categories. As of now, I have two dimensions mainly categories and Brands.
I was thinking either to write a Manipulator with merged value of brand and category or bring a similar property from backend. In that case, we would get the associated categories but then a duplication of N values. If we pre populate the categories in a map, then the association with brands may not be possible and would lead to an Auto suggest option leading to zero results page.
Any suggestions to achieve this?
Regards,
Vaibhav

Vaibhav,
Have you tried using Compound Dimension search for this kind of type-ahead functionality? Additionally, you'll need to restrict the dimension search to only the Brand and Category dimensions. I haven't had a chance to use this kind of dimension search in any of my implementations yet. But it looks like this might be able to get the results you're looking for.
You'll need to set a --compoundDimSearch flag in the Dgidx before you can start using Compound Dimension search. Refer to the basic dev guide for more details.
Let us know if this works for you.
Thanks.
-Adi

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