When a search query is entered, only product or content attributes that are configured
as searchable attributes are searched, and only products or content assets that contain the
search term in a searchable attribute are returned in search results. If the searched term is
contained in an attribute that isn't a searchable attribute, the product isn't returned in the
search results.
As a best practice, confine your searchable attributes to the minimum number necessary for
customer searches. Searchable attributes contribute greatly to the size of indexes, which
affect the speed of your search.
Searchable attributes you select have no effect on the attributes selected for search
refinement or sorting rules. However, the boost factor that you select for a searchable
attribute affects the sort order if you create a sorting rule that uses text relevance as a
sorting criterion.
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Select
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On the Searchable Attributes page, within either the Product
Index Attributes or the Content Index Attributes section,
click New
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Expand the highlighted field.
Only attributes with appropriate data types for search appear.
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Select an attribute.
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Click the Boost Factor field and enter a boost factor if you want to increase or
decrease the importance of the attribute to the search results.
For example, if you want the product name to be more important than the description you
could enter 2.00 and the attribute would be twice as important as
attributes with the default value of 1.00. You can use decimals as boost factors.
A boost of:
The new attribute appears in the dialog with red triangles in each field, indicating that your
change is not yet applied.
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Select Auto-correction, Yes (default) or
No.
By default, all searchable attribute values are subject to auto-correction (spell checking) and
auto-completion. If, for example, a searchable attribute Color is
enabled for auto-correction, all the color names are corrected and completed. This
behavior might be inappropriate for certain attributes such as product ID, since
customers are expecting a specific product detail page, not a different product that has
a similar ID.
Note: Autocorrection is set to No by default for HTML type searchable attributes.
When you select:
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Yes, the attribute is included in auto-correction.
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No, the attribute values are excluded from auto-correction,
while they are still searchable.
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Click Apply.
The red triangles in the attribute disappear.
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Rebuild the Product or Content Index, depending on the attributes
you added.