Search Configurations

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Overview
The Configurations Editor is the second step in your search configuration. This allows you to create a set of rules that applies to your site. Using the fields added in the Schema Editor, you can add additional parameters such as Product Slicing, ...
Create or Edit a Search Configuration
Create a New Search Configuration To add a new entry, click Create New Configuration . Enter a Name  and Description  for the configuration under the General tab. You will not be able to click the other tabs until the configurati...
Search Types
Within each site, there are four search types to configure, organized into tabs: Site Search Category Suggestion (Visual Search) Product Suggestion (Visual Search) Listing You must save your changes before switching to a new search type. ...
Third-Party Search Tools
Splainer Splainer is an open-source, third-party tool from OpenSource Connections. It has been integrated with the Kibo Composable Commerce Platform in order to provide insight into search relevancy and results. To access, click the Splainer.i...
Personalized Search
Overview If you have personalized search, recommendation strategies can be combined with this search configuration on your site. The scores from the recommendation strategies in personalization are combined with the relevancy/weighting scores to...
Product Slicing within Search
Click the radio button to enable Product Slicing. This allows variations of a product to be listed separately without creating individual product listings. Product Slicing must be configured separately . ...
MinMatch
MinMatch ("Minimum number should match") allows you to specify a percentage of query words or blocks that should appear in a document. The allowable range is 0 to 100% and up to three values. ...
Phrase Slop and Boosting
Phrase slop is the number of other words permitted between words in query phrase. The lesser the distance between two terms the higher the score will be. Phrase slop specifies a maximum slop , or the number of positions that tokens need to be mov...
Spell Correction
The Spell Correction features within search configurations improve the possibility of matches in search results when a search term is misspelled or doesn't exactly match a term in the product catalog. They can be used independently or combined...
Field Weights
The weights section allows you to add field entries from your settings list and adjust their weight and phrase weight. Field Weight is a boost factor that increases or decreases a particular field's importance in the query relative to the other ...
Boost and Bury Fields
You may Boost or Bury any field entry that was created in the Schema Editor. This allows the ranking of certain products relative to others within the search results to be manually changed. The allowable boost/bury value is –100 to 100. Any ...
Whitespace
The Advanced Settings allow you to configure whitespace, which adjusts the search query to sort and match multi-term entries correctly.  Cross Field Factor:  The degree to which the score is adjusted to sort exact vs multi-field match...
Return Fields
Use Return Fields to determine which fields are returned by the Product Suggestion API. Click Add Return Field  to include a new entry. A modal will appear. Make your selection from the drop-down menu and then click Add . ...
Merchandizing Rules
Merchandizing Rules provide the ability to create and manage boost and bury conditions, sort definitions, and control how products are displayed in specific search scenarios. Rules can be applied to both Site and Category search types . Create a...
Search Term Redirects
Overview This function allows merchandisers to redirect a user to a specific URL based on specific search terms. Search Term Redirects applies to Site Search only. The user will be redirected to the new URL when they press Enter or click the sear...
Search Synonyms
You can use the Search Synonyms module in Admin to add search synonyms for specific sites. Search synonyms are synonyms to user search queries that expand the search results. For example, a user may search for boots , but you want the search res...
Facets
For each category configured for your tenant’s product suite, you can define a set of facets that filter the site product results. You can define facets based on the following sources: Product categories, which show subcategory values Pri...
Vector Search
Vector Search is a search method that doesn't rely on matching words to a query. After using machine learning on a large dataset, documents are associated with vectors (a series of numbers) and then the search query checks those vectors to find ...