About Endeca properties

Endeca properties are name/value pairs intended for display in your Endeca implementation, after an end-user has searched for or navigated to a record set or an individual record.

Note: Understanding Endeca properties is critical to building an Endeca implementation. This topic provides a brief overview, however, Endeca strongly recommends that you read Chapter 2, "Understanding Records, Properties, and Dimensions," in the Endeca Concepts Guide to make sure you have a solid grounding in this critical concept.

An Endeca implementation has two types of properties:

Source properties are name/value pairs that contain descriptive information about a source record. Generally, a source record is nothing more than a set of source properties.
Endeca properties are name/value pairs that are intended for display in your Endeca implementation, after an end-user has searched for or navigated to a record set or an individual record. Endeca properties are also useful for sorting, searching, and filtering. Endeca properties are generally derived from source properties.

While Endeca properties can be displayed and searched, they cannot be used for classification and navigation. You can think of Endeca properties as descriptive information only. If you want a source property to be available for navigation, you must map it to a dimension. See the Endeca Forge Guide for details.