XCM Settings for Search Functions in the Product Catalog 

Use

You can set up your product catalog search functionality to allow sponsored links and error tolerant searches.

 

Procedure

Sponsored Links

You can maintain a text file with a set of key value pairs for each index you create on the TREX server. The keys are terms and the values are hyperlinks. When the customer searches for these terms in the catalog search area of the Web shop the system displays these terms as sponsored hyperlinks in the search results.

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       1.      Log on to Extended Configuration Management (XCM) for your B2C Web shop at:

http://<servername:port>/<b2c>or <b2b>/admin/xcm/init.do

       2.      Select Start ® Components ® Customer ® ims and select your component configuration for the ims component.

       3.      Enable the parameter allowAdministeredProd.

This parameter enhances the Quick Search functionality as follows:

In the product master data in the item details for each product you can enter in text type subtitle a list of space separated key words (which typically are characteristic for the product). Once you have maintained and published the product catalog, search terms entered in the product quick search will be matched against the foloowing:

¡        The key word lists entered in the subtitle text of the products

¡        The product ID

¡        The product description

¡        The product long text

Matches for the subtitle text of products will appear on top of the result list and they will be marked with a specific background color.

Error Tolerant Search

The system recognizes and corrects misspelled search terms and displays the correctly spelled terms for the customer to run the search on.

       1.      Log on to Extended Configuration Management (XCM) for your B2C Web shop at:

http://<servername:port>/<b2c>or <b2b>/admin/xcm/init.do

       2.      Select Start ® Components ® Customer ® ims and select your component configuration for the ims component.

       3.      Enable the parameter enableFuzzySearch.

This parameter enables the system to recognize misspelled word s and correct them for the customer. For example the customer types in patern and the system recognizes the misspelling, and displays the word pattern to the customer as a suggestion for the search term.