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Preface
About this guide
- Who should use this guide?
Contacting Oracle Support
The goal of Guided Search configuration
- Meeting the challenges posed by product data
Before you begin
- Mastering basic concepts
- Planning the configuration of your Guided Search application
- Related reading
Configuring Guided Search applications
- What is configuration?
- Configurable components described in this guide
- Configuration tasks described by this document
Steps for creating your Guided Search application
- Deploying the Discover Electronics reference application
- Take a tour of Discover using Workbench
- Remove Discover Electronics configuration
- Change the load data script name and application properties
- Configure Assembler properties
- Modify the deployment template for your application
- Configuring your application environment
Introduction: record stores
- Product data and dimension value record stores
Creating record stores
- How many record stores does my application need?
- Creating record stores using a custom script
Configuring record stores
- Commonly edited behaviors of record stores
  - idPropertyName
  - changePropertyNames
Introduction: flat dimensions and hierarchical dimensions
- Dimension values in flat dimensions and hierarchical dimensions
Introduction: configuring dimensions and Endeca record properties
- Parameters of dimensions and properties in index-config.json
Creating dimensions, Endeca record properties, and Endeca records
- Mapping source record properties by editing index-config.json
  - Required conventions for names of dimensions, dimension values, and properties
Configuring dimensions, dimension values, and Endeca records
- Introduction: making Endeca records accessible through Guided Navigation
  - How Guided Navigation accesses tagged Endeca records
  - How Endeca records are tagged with dimension values
- Configuring dimension values for hierarchical dimensions
- Generating dimension values for flat dimensions
- Configuring aggregated records and derived properties
Loading product data
- Introduction: external sources of product data
- Loading product data from commonly used data sources
- Loading product data from a custom data source
Configuring keyword search behavior
- Introduction: record searches and dimension searches
  - Sample record searches and dimension searches
- Configuring record searches
  - Configuring matches
    - Specifying match modes
    - Language-specific text manipulation
  - Hierarchical searches
    - Hierarchical dimension searches
    - Hierarchical record searches
- Configuring search interfaces
  - Understanding and configuring search interfaces
- Configuring dimension searches
Sorting and ranking query results
- Sorting Guided Navigation results
  - Configuring the order in which dimensions can be accessed
  - Configuring the order in which dimension values are displayed
- Sorting keyword search results
- Configuring the display order of query results using the Experience Manager
Introduction: record store mergers
- Introduction: record store mergers
Creating and configuring a record store merger
- Creating and configuring a record store merger
  - Creating a record store merger
  - Configuring a record store merger
Running a record store merger
- Running a record store merger

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