Configuring search attributes

You can configure how you want the system to treat your custom product attributes and common product attributes when a shopper searches your store. You can choose the attributes that appear when a shopper performs a search, and allow the shopper to use these attributes when filtering, sorting, and faceted searches.

Note: You should configure your search attributes before you configure your faceted search.

The system provides some configured product attributes by default when you enable the enhanced search. See Default product attributes for more information.

Note: You set enhanced search at the catalog level. When you enable enhanced search, you enable enhanced search for all of the catalogs used on your site, and you can configure product attributes.

The following table shows the default product attributes for the enhanced search. You can customize these product attributes.How to configure search attributes for more information.

Family Attribute Default Configuration
Base Category Name Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Base Display Name Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Base External Reference ID Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Base List Price Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Base Mfr Part Number Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Base SKU Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Game BBFC Game Rating Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Game BBFC Game Rating Reason Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Game Brazil Game Rating Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Game Brazil Game Rating Reason Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Game CERO Game Rating Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Game CERO Game Rating Reason Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Game ESRB Game Rating Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Game ESRB Game Rating Reason Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Game PEGI Game Rating Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Game PEGI Game Rating Reason Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Game USK Game Rating Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Game USK Game Rating Reason Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Search Engine Optimization Custom Title Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Search Engine Optimization Meta Description Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Search Engine Optimization Meta Keywords Indexed and Searchable
Software Thumbnail Image Notes Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete
Storefront Settings Keywords Indexed and Searchable
Storefront Settings Short Description Indexed and Searchable

Required Role: Search ManagerClosed This Global Commerce user role allows users access to the enhanced search feature.

This role is available in both Big Blue and Global Commerce. If you have this role in one of these systems, you can access this feature.

  1. Select Storefront, select Search Configuration and then click Configure Search Attributes. The Configure Search Attributes page appears.

  2. For each family of attributes that appear on the page, select how you want to treat the attribute. Your options are as follows:

    • None—When you select this option, the system does not index the attribute. The attribute will not be available for sorting, filtering, and faceting. It does not appear in a search when a shopper searches your store.
    • Indexed—When you select this option, the system indexes the attribute and the attribute is available for sorting, filtering, and faceting. It does not appear in a search when a shopper searches your store.
    • Indexed and Searchable—When you select this option, the system indexes the attribute and the attribute is available for sorting, filtering, faceting, and searching.
    • Indexed, Searchable, and Autocomplete —When you select this option, the system indexes the attribute and the attribute is available for sorting, filtering, faceting, and searching. The system also examines the attribute for autocomplete and provides it as a search suggestion when the customer enters their search keywords
  3. Click Save.