The Search Workbench is used for creating and working with customization data. Customizations are used to enhance the out-of-the-box configuration for features such as languages, dictionaries, and topic sets.
Customization is the process of optimizing your Oracle ATG Web Commerce Search implementation for more accurate search results. Customizations typically add information to the index (such as additional dictionaries or term weights) or affect the way your content is processed or accessed by end-users (for example, query rules, topic sets, or facet sets).
Note: For information on adding customization data to your search project, see Adding Customizations to Content in the Managing Search Projects chapter.
Search Administration allows you to work with the following types of customization data:
Topic Sets – Hierarchical organizations of content items, which can help your users search or browse content. See the Topic Sets chapter.
Dictionaries – Customized terminology that augments the supplied Oracle ATG Web Commerce Search dictionaries. See the Dictionaries chapter.
Term Weights – Allow you to identify “stop words” or “noise words” that can reduce search effectiveness and should not be considered when determining a content item’s relevance. See the Managing Term Weight Sets section of the Dictionaries chapter.
Query Rules – Allows specified query strings to trigger actions that can alter search behavior or return specialized results, such as promotional or sponsored links. See the Query Rules chapter.
Facet Sets – Allow you to select the properties that will be used to return faceting information for faceted navigation. See the Facet Sets chapter for non-Merchandising uses of faceting, or the ATG Merchandising Guide for Business Users if you are using Oracle ATG Web Commerce Merchandising.
Text Processing Option Sets – Collections of parameter settings that control a wide variety of options related to content indexing and query processing. See the Text Processing Option Sets chapter.
Merchandising Search Configuration – Used in conjunction with Oracle ATG Web Commerce Merchandising, allows you to customize the way search results are ranked.
Note: Merchandising Search Configurations can only be loaded by reference, and are not available in the Workbench. See Appendix C, Loading Customizations by Reference.
Auxiliary Data – Provides a way to change properties on items that have already been indexed, or to add type-ahead data to your index (see Appendix D, Implementing Type-Ahead).
Note: Auxiliary Data can only be loaded by reference, and is not available in the Workbench. See Appendix C, Loading Customizations by Reference.
