This guide provides information about using ATG Search to index and search content in ATG repositories, including ATG Commerce catalogs. Implementing Commerce Search on your site involves the following steps:
You specify repository items and attributes to index through an XML definition file.
Based on the information in the XML definition file, the repository items are transformed into XHTML documents.
These XHTML documents are indexed by ATG Search.
Using search forms in your site pages (created with form handlers that communicate with ATG Search), site visitors search these indexed documents.
For example, if you index your ATG Commerce catalog, a site visitor can use ATG Search to search your Commerce site for specific products.
This chapter describes how to set up Commerce Search in a production environment. It includes the following sections:
For information about setting up ATG Merchandising to work with Commerce Search in an ATG Content Administration environment, see the ATG Merchandising User Guide. For information about setting up ATG Search, see the ATG Search Installation and Configuration Guide.
