Search Settings

This section allows the administrator to configure the quick search and the advanced search options on the storefront of In-commerce.
This section lists all fields representing product attributes. Next to each field, there is a ‘Quick Search’ checkbox, which includes this field in the quick search query. Several most common attributes are enabled by default. In general, it makes sense to include only those fields in the quick search, which may contain text in them, otherwise when a visitor searches for a text keyword, the non-textual fields will be not searchable. One notable exception to this rule is price, it is advisable to include it in the quick search. Next, there is a ‘Weight’ text box, in which the administrator can designate the importance of each field during a search. The fields with a larger weight will be more important then the fields with the lower weight. This is used when calculating the product’s relevance to the search keyword, for sorting of the results. The last column is the ‘Advanced Search’ checkbox. It designates whether a particular field should be displayed on the ‘Advanced Search’ page and be searchable by the visitors. By default, most fields are included.
Below the list of fields are the search relevance settings.

• Increase importance if field contains a required keyword by – this specifies the percentage by which the weight of a field will increase, when a required keyword is found in that field. A required keyword is one that is preceded with a ‘+’ in the search key phrase.
• Search Relevance depends on _ % keyword – the percentage of relevance that comes from the keyword being found in that product.
• Search Relevance depends on _ % popularity - the percentage of relevance that is based on the product’s popularity.
• Search Relevance depends on _ % rating - the percentage of relevance that is based on the product’s rating.