TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Navigate to: Marketing > Site Search > Search Profiles
Search Profiles allows administrators to easily manage creation of search configurations using:
- Searchable fields
- Relevance rankings
- Search query properties and operators
- Facets
- Triggers
- Stores
These can be used to configure the rules which the search functionality uses to display results on the storefront.
Creating A Search Profile
Administrators can follow the below steps to create a search profile:
- Navigate to Marketing > Site Search
- Click on Search Profiles tab
- Click on Add New
- Provide a unique name for the search profile, select a Catalog and configure the necessary details
- Save the changes
Note:
- Multiple search profiles can be created for a catalog but only one profile can be active. This is achieved by setting the default profile for a catalog. The search profile will only work for the stores that are associated.
- When no search profile is created for a catalog the system defined search profile will work for that catalog on the storefront.
Deleting A Search Profile
Administrators can delete a search profile and can decide to preserve the published data or delete the published data that is used for displaying search results.
When a search profile along with the published data used for search is deleted, the system defined search profile is automatically published for the catalog and therefore the search index for the catalog is updated with the latest configurations.
When only the search profile is deleted and the published data used for search is preserved, the search index for the catalog will not be updated therefore the same search configurations of the deleted search profile will work on the web store. In order to again update the index with the new configurations, admin users can perform any of the below steps:
- Publish the Catalog (this recreates/updates the index with either system defined search profile or with admin defined search profile (if available))
- Create/Update the Index from Manage PIM Indexes screen (this recreates/updates the index with either system defined search profile or with admin defined search profile (if available))
- Create a search profile for the catalog and publish the same (this recreates/updates the index with search profile created from admin application)
Administrators can delete search profiles by:
- Navigate to Marketing > Site Search
- Click on Delete icon in the Action column or
- Check one or more search profiles
- Select the “Delete” option under the Tools menu
- Click the “OK” button to confirm deletion of the profiles.
