The search preferences you configure control the behavior of the
search feature for your instance. These preferences can be
exported.
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Select
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On the Search Preferences page, select your instance type:
Sandbox/Development, Staging, or Production.
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In the Availability Settings section:
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Select Show Orderable Products Only if
you want to hide any products that are not available.
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To indicate the percentage of availability from which products are to be ranked
lower and pushed to the end of the search results, enter a value in the Availability
Low Ranking Threshold field. (For example, 0.3 indicates that all products with an
availability of 0.3 and below are pushed to the end of the search result.)
Ranking is done at query time instead of index building time. Therefore, a change
to a rule or threshold takes effect immediately. The results are not sorted by
availability; products are shifted via sorting criteria. To control the priority of
Availability Ranking and any other sorting criteria in the storefront, use the Sorting
Configuration to change the predefined order of possible sorting conditions
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In the Search Settings section:
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Select Dictionary Locale Fallback to make linguistic
search rules (stop words, category names exclusions, synonyms,
hypernyms, compound words, common phrases, search suggestions, and
stemming exceptions) available for a language locale to apply to
the related region locales (en_US), in addition to the linguistic
rules defined for the region locale itself.
Note:
Locale fallback in the Search Dictionaries module only works from country locale
to language locale, such as en_GB to en. Fallback from language to default locale
is not available for Search Dictionaries.
Each page of an affected search rule shows a message
that indicates this setting. Disable this setting to have only the
linguistic rules defined for the region locale used for this
locale.
See Locales.
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Select Ignore Leading Zeroes to ignore leading zeros
for all searchable attributes, such as product IDs.
For example, when this setting is enabled, searching for 8234 or
008234 finds 008234. Disable this setting
and leading zeros are considered part of the search term. For example, only
008234 finds 008234, an exact match.
Note: Rebuild the product catalog to activate this setting.
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Select Search Autocorrections so that search terms are
automatically spell-corrected or completed before the actual search is executed.
A spell corrected and complete version of the search phrase
can appear as Did You Mean regardless of this
setting.
Disable this setting and search terms are not corrected or
completed.
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Select Commerce Cloud Einstein Search Recommendations to enable
personalized search query correction using Einstein AI.
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Select Search Redirect Keyword Rules to use expanded
match types:
Exact(same as Disabled), Phrase,
Broad,, and Negative.
Disable this setting (default) to use exact match.
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Select Search Suggestions so that search terms are
automatically spell-corrected or completed before the actual search is executed.
A spell corrected and complete version of the search phrase
can appear as Did You Mean regardless of this
setting.
Disable this setting and search terms are not corrected or
completed.
Enhanced search suggestion is automatically enabled and
can't be disabled with this preference. See
Search Suggestions.
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Select Merged Variation Groups Display Mode to enable
merging of Variation Groups.
Variation Groups are shown as individual search hits in the storefront search. In
some cases, many individual products can return, so it can be helpful to show all
Variation Groups merged as the master product within the search results.
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In the Notification Settings for Unbucketed Refinement Values
section:
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Select Notification Email so that the users specified are
notified when there are unbucketed refinement values.
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In the Email To Addresses field, enter one or more comma-separated email addresses
for the notification.
After a new product import, new refinement attributes can be imported that are not
accounted for in existing bucketing rules. When products that have non-bucketed values
are set to appear, they can cause customer confusion and a poor storefront experience.
This setting enables merchants to easily identify these unbucketed values before they
appear on the storefront.
If at least one email address is configured, a notification
email is sent to that address when unbucketed refinement values
are found during indexing.
Don't enable this setting on a Production instance.
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In the Notification Settings for Search Indexer section:
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Select Notification Email so that the users specified
are notified when the number of indexing errors exceed the
threshold after indexing.
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In the Email To Addresses field, enter one or more comma-separated email addresses
for the notification.
If at least one email address is configured, a notification
email is sent to that address when unbucketed refinement values
are found during indexing.
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In the Notification Settings for Einstein Dictionaries
section:
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Select Notification Email so that the users specified are
notified when there are new search dictionaries available.
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In the Email To Addresses field, enter one or more comma-separated email addresses
for the notification.
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Click Apply to save your changes or Reset to revert
to the previous settings.
The search suggest and search auto correct settings can be configured in multiple ways, with
different results. The examples shown in the following table were taken from Spelling Suggestion examples using SiteGenesis.
| Search Suggestions |
Search Auto Correct |
Storefront - Enhanced Search Suggest |
Results |
| Enabled or Disabled |
Enabled |
Enabled |
See Spelling
Suggestion examples |
| Enabled or Disabled |
Enabled |
Disabled |
Performs no Search Suggest
Auto spells corrected
search results
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| Enabled or Disabled |
Disabled |
Disabled |
Opens No Search Results page |
| Enabled or Disabled |
Disabled |
Enabled |
Search suggestion performs auto spell-correct
Opens
No Search Results page
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