Search for taxon name works only on complete names

[jholetschek]

For the LAND portal, we added common names to the "scientific name" filter, which is great. The downside is that this works only on complete names, for both scientific names. It would be great if results would pop up already when the name is not complete yet, for example after "Gänse" (> Gänseblümchen).

[MortenHofft]

This looks like an API issue

API example https://api.gbif.org/v1/species/search?q=G%C3%A4nse&qField=VERNACULAR
Website equivalent: https://www.gbif.org/species/search?q=G%C3%A4nse&qField=VERNACULAR

None of them show Gänseblümchen https://api.gbif.org/v1/species/search?q=G%C3%A4nsebl%C3%BCmchen&qField=VERNACULAR

[mdoering]

This isn't auto complete / suggest, but a search and therefore expected behavior - apart from the search with Gänseblümchen not returning anything: https://www.gbif.org/species/3117424?vnOffset=20

[MortenHofft]

Ah, sorry @mdoering I completely forgot that, despite being my own implementation.
For the LAND portal, @jholetschek wanted a scientific name filter that also supported vernacular names. To support that I created a "suggest" query that instead use search for both vernacular and scientific names, filter the vernacular names by the desired language and returns it as a suggestion.

Could you suggest another approach that would work better?