Adjusting Product Fields for search on Magento

Introduction

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

• • Name
  • Description
  • SKU
  • Category
  • Attributes that are enabled for search
  • Attributes of all variations in Configurable, Grouped, or Bundle products that are enabled for search
  • Review messages

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 not. 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 extension 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. Product Name, SKU
2. Other product fields (product details) indexed for the search – have the same weight
3. Description, Short Description, Reviews messages 
4. Product Name, Description, Short Description, SKU for Grouped products

You can change the search weight for all product fields except for Product Name 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.