Configuring a Single Search Administration for Multiple CA Environments

If you are using Search with ATG Content Administration, have more than one environment (such as Staging and Production), and plan to use incremental indexing, perform the following steps:

  1. Copy the /atg/commerce/search/IndexedItemsGroup.properties file to IndexedItemsGroup_staging.properties.

  2. In the new IndexedItemsGroup_staging.properties file, set the repository property as shown:

    repository=/atg/commerce/catalog/ProductCatalog_staging

  3. Copy the product-catalog-output-config.xml file to product-catalog-output-config-staging.xml.

  4. In the new product-catalog-output-config-staging.xml file, change the repository-path and repository-item settings as shown:

    repository-path=/atg/commerce/catalog/ProductCatalog_staging
    repository-item-group=/atg/commerce/search/IndexedItemsGroup_staging

  5. Copy the ProductCatalogOutputConfig.properties file to ProductCatalogOutputConfig_staging.properties.

  6. In the new ProductCatalogOutputConfig_staging.properties file, set the definitionFile as shown:

    definitionFile=product-catalog-output-config-staging.xml