Environments that have Merchandising and Search installed can use a feature called Search Merchandising, which enables commerce sites to customize search results based on business initiatives and customer purchasing patterns. In Merchandising, you create search configurations, which contain rules and settings that affect how search results display to a specified group of customers. Language, user segment, and/or site can be used as dimensions for determining which search configuration to use for a given user.
In a multisite environment, merchandisers can:
Use a specified site as a search configuration dimension.
Define search configurations that can be used across multiple sites.
Assign percentage weights to sites to determine the relative importance of a site in determining the order of search results.
For information about administering search configurations so they are ready for use by business users, see the ATG Merchandising Administration Guide. For information about creating search configurations, see the ATG Merchandising Guide for Business Users.
Once you have created your search configurations, Search Testing lets you test and see previews of the impact that search configuration changes will have on the application before updates are actually deployed to staging or production.
In a multisite environment, merchandisers can:
Select a site as a dimension when running a search test.
Specify a site on which to simulate their search, or conduct a cross-site search test by searching across all registered sites in a specific search environment.
For information on configuring search tests, see the ATG Merchandising Administration Guide. For information about running search tests and interpreting the results, see the ATG Merchandising Guide for Business Users.
