The <query>
query type has a relQuestSettings
attribute that, like responseNumberSettings
, is a delimited String that encodes the values of a number of subattributes.
In the QueryRequest
class, the corresponding relQuestSettings
property is an atg.nucleus.ResolvingMap
that stores these subattributes as a series of key/value pairs. (The atg.nucleus.ResolvingMap
class is a special type of Map that allows you to use the Nucleus ^=
syntax to link the value of an individual map key to the value of a property of another component.) When the query is submitted, the values in the relQuestSettings
property are used to construct the String used in the query XML.
Setting activeSolutionsZones
The activeSolutionZones
subattribute of relQuestSettings
is a String containing a comma-separated list of the text properties in the index that are available for searching. Typically, you’ll want to set this to a list of all of the text properties in the index (after all, that’s why you included them). Rather than specifying the entire list explicitly, you can make all of the text properties available for searching by setting activeSolutionZones
to an asterisk (*). For example, you might set this in the QueryRequest.properties
file:
relQuestSettings=\
activeSolutionZones=*
In some cases, however, you may want to make only a subset of the indexed text properties available for searching. For example, suppose your site has a Books section, and when customers search in this area, you want to search only the title
and author
properties. Rather than having two different indexes with different properties in them, you create a single index with the full set of desired properties for the overall site, but then override the value of activeSolutionZones
in the pages of the Books section to restrict searches from those pages:
<dsp:input bean="${FH}.searchRequest.relQuestSettings.activeSolutionZones"
value="role:author,role:title"/>
When a customer enters a search query in this part of the site, Oracle ATG Web Commerce Search searches only these two properties. The search is faster, returning fewer but more relevant results.