Through this post, we will try to explain the main menus and their functionalities here.Home:
This menu holds the dashboard for viewing overall search system for a specific account. It includes below sections.
- Index Information,
- Terms Report,
- Null Search Terms Report,
- Crawl Performance,
- Search Form,
- Recent Changes,
- Alerts
Design:
This menu helps to adjust the design specific search configurations on a page. It includes,
- Navigation - Facets, Facet Rails(Group of facets), Breadcrumbs, Page Navigation, Menus, Recent Searches
- Templates - Section where we can create new templates. This templates includes both transport(.tpl) and presentation(.tmpl) templates.
- Banners - Helps to add HTML Banner
- Autocomplete - Setting up auto complete, word lists, styles of search form and its form related configurations are available in this section.
Rules:
- Query Cleaning - When the query is hit on the browser, if we need to clean up the query, this rules can be used.
- Direct Hits - For a specific query term, if we need to redirect to a specific url, we can do the same here.
- Pre-search rules - This rules gets executed before the search happens; useful when we need to do an operation on query term(for eg: check query contains a specific word)
- Post search rules- This gets executed once a search is done and result is available. (An example could be, if a custom variable is present and its value is meeting some criteria)
- business rules - purely business queries. For eg if business wants to show a banner(promotional Advt) when the query term contains a specific term.
- Ranking rules - Helps to provide weights to metatags and adjusting its weights. Based on this, search results can be pushed up or down.
Linguistics:
- Dictionaries - to add our own dictionary.
- Words & Language - To add any conditions like case sensitivity, sound alike etc.
- Did you mean - If a user types a wrong spelled term and if we need to suggest him a relevant term.
- Excluded words - always helps to omit some terms from search.
Simulator:
An html form of search page in S&P environment. This helps to test the search functionality in Search and Promote itself. We can set up rules for various simulators.
Staging:
A section which gives idea on what are all things modified in stage and not yet pushed to live
Reports:
An over view section of all search operations. Index reports, term reports, Adobe analytics, alerts etc. Changes made by different users can be tracked here.
Index:
All indexing operations can be performed here. This include configuring new index, editing various types of indexes, running index, roll back etc.
Settings:
All account related and user related settings are found here. Crawl, searching, metadata, filtering, rules, analytics, seo, profile, account, user operations etc are managed through thi
s menu.
Accounts:
All accounts are listed here for a logged in user. If the person is a normal user with single account access, only one account will be listed here.
