Create or Edit a Search Configuration

Create a New Search Configuration

  1. To add a new entry, click Create New Configuration.
    Screenshot of Configurations in search settings with an arrow pointing at the Create New Configuration button
  2. Enter a Name and Description for the configuration under the General tab. You will not be able to click the other tabs until the configuration is saved.
    Screenshot of configurations within search settings, arrows pointing at Configuration Test2 and the save button
  3. Click Save. To continue setting it up, refer to the Edit a Search Configuration steps below.

Edit a Search Configuration

Now that the new setting entry is created, you can adjust it further by clicking the Edit button at the end of the row.

Screenshot of configurations in search settings with an arrow pointing at the edit button of Test2 configuration

Follow the below steps to fully configure a new configuration, or update just a particular field if you only want to edit an existing configuration.

  • The settings in the Site Search tab manage the Site Search API results:
    1. Enable Show Product Slicing if you want product variants to be displayed separately in the API results. For example, if enabled then a red shirt and a blue shirt would be listed as separate products. If disabled, then the shirt will be listed as one product with color options for red and blue. See the Slicing documentation for more information about this feature.
    2. Set the MinMatch to determine how much of the search query needs to match a product. Kibo recommends three options: 100%, 75%, and 50%.
    3. Set the Phrase Slop to determine how many other words are permitted between a search query. Kibo recommends a value of 1 or 2.
    4. Enable Auto Correct if you want to automatically switch to an auto-corrected search term if there are no results for MinMatch.
    5. Use Did You Mean to offer corrections for misspellings.
    6. Add or edit desired Field Weights.
    7. Create Boost and Bury conditions based on product attributes for all Site Search results. This can help boost popular products or bury low margin products.
    8. Click Save in the top right.
  • The settings in the Category Suggestion tab manage the Suggest2 API category suggestion results:
    1. Add or edit desired Field Weights for categories.
    2. Select what Return Fields should be included in the API response.
    3. Click Save in the top right.
  • The settings in the Product Suggestion tab manage the Suggest2 API product suggestion results:
    1. Add or edit desired Field Weights for products.
    2. Select what Return Fields should be included in the API response.
    3. Create Boost and Bury conditions based on product attributes.
    4. Click Save in the top right.

Note that Search Configurations are part of your catalog and site hierarchy. Always check that you are editing settings for the correct catalog and site in the page header. The Search Configurations page with the catalog and site in the header