Creating a Search Merchandising strategy involves creating and configuring several assets. There are few restrictions placed on the order in which you perform tasks, but you may find it easier to approach them in this order.
First, an administrator performs the following tasks:
Determines the structure for the search configuration tree, which involves deciding how you want to organize your search configurations and search configuration folders, the dimensions and dimension values held by each, and the base search configurations you want to create. The section Structuring the Search Configuration Tree, contains the information you need to make those decisions.
Creates the search configuration folders, sets up the dimension language, segment, and site values, and selects the properties that can affect result ordering using property prioritization. These tasks are described in the Administering Search Configurations section.
Once these tasks are complete, a merchandiser does the following tasks. These tasks are described in Defining Search Configurations in the ATG Merchandising Guide for Business Users.
Creates base search configurations.
Specifies the rules and settings used by the base search configurations.
Creates search configurations.
Specifies the rules and settings used by the search configurations.
(Optional) Runs search tests that list the results that would appear on the web site if that search configuration were deployed.
