Adjusting Product Fields for search on BigCommerce

Introduction

Product fields are product details that Searchanise imports from your store to search by them. The following product details are imported from your BigCommerce store:

• • Title
  • Description
  • SKU
  • SKUs for all variants
  • Brand
  • Category
  • Search Keywords
  • UPC/EAN
  • Meta keywords
  • Meta description
  • Values of all options
  • Reviews messages
  • Values of Custom Fields adjusted in the Searchanise control panel > Search & Navigation > Preferences section > Products tab > Search by Custom Fields (see the instructions here)
  • Product condition – the Condition product field 

Enable/disable product fields for search

By default, all product fields are enabled for search. You can choose which ones will be enabled and which ones won’t. To enable/disable product fields for search:

1. Go to the Searchanise control panel > Search & Navigation > Preferences section > Products Fields tab to view Product Fields.
2. Click the Edit fields button in the top-right corner.
3. Change the state of the product field(s) from Enabled to Disabled or vice versa.

   

4. Save the changes.
5. Click the link in the notice at the top or the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section to start indexation.

That’s it. After the indexation is complete, the app won’t search by the disabled product fields.

What is more, you can edit all or several product fields displayed on the page at once. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Searchanise control panel > Search & Navigation > Preferences section > Products Fields tab.
2. By default, it is shown 20 product fields per page. If you want to show and edit more, change the value in the Display drop-down list above the table.
3. Select the Select all checkbox in the header of the table or select certain product fields.
4. Click the appeared Edit selected button.
5. Select the value of the Use in text search and suggestions drop-down list for all selected product fields and click the Update button.
6. Click the link in the notice at the top or the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section to start indexation.

Set search weight to product fields

Search weight defines the importance of each product field. According to the importance of product fields, the search engine calculates the relevance of each item in the search results list.

By default, product fields have search weights in the following order:

1. Title, SKU – the highest weight 
2. Other product fields (product details) indexed for the search – have the same weight
3. Description, Meta Description, Reviews Messages – the lowest weight 

You can change the search weight for all product fields except for Title and SKU. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Searchanise control panel > Search & Navigation > Preferences section > Products Fields tab to view Product Fields.
2. Click the Edit fields button in the top-right corner.
3. Change the search weight of the product fields.

   

4. Save the changes.
5. Click the link in the notice at the top or the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section to start indexation.

That’s it. After the indexation is complete, the changed search weights will affect the relevance of search results.

Reset weights to default values

You can always reset the changed weight to default values. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Searchanise control panel > Search & Navigation > Preferences section > Products Fields tab to view Product Fields.
2. Click the Reset all weights button in the top-right corner.
3. Click the link in the notice at the top or the Force re-indexation button in the Dashboard section to start indexation.