A tree is made up of search configurations organized in search configuration folders. When you create search configurations, it’s a good idea to first create base search configurations that act as templates by providing settings that can be used or overridden in the search configurations they are associated with. A search configuration can associate any base search configuration with itself as long as it doesn’t support a conflicting language. For more information about languages, see Configuring Language Support.
Depending on how you configure your tree, you can create a single search configuration for all web site visitors, or create different search configurations for different groups of visitors. Visitors can be grouped by one or more of the following dimensions:
Language: useful if your site is in multiple languages or has visitors from multiple countries
User segment: useful for targeting specific search results to specific types of visitors
Site: In a multisite environment, the site dimension lets you target specific search results to visitors of specific sites.
Before merchandisers can create search configurations and base search configurations, an administrator must create the search configuration folder structure that defines the tree and configure the languages, user segments, and sites that will be available as dimension values.
