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Search Considerations When Using Indexed Data
When users search for a product by using a search term, Product Catalog Management checks for an exact match to the search term. If it can’t find an exact match, PCM uses typo correction to help users find the product they’re looking for.
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Here are some search considerations to keep in mind:
- Search terms don’t support partial term matching such as prefix search. For example, if users search for ‘tel’, the search doesn't return all the records that start with tel such as television, telephone, telecommunication.
- Typo tolerance in search terms is supported, provided the search terms have three or more characters. Typo tolerance handles user input errors such as misspellings and typographical errors, and provides relevant search results. Typo tolerance can autocorrect a search term when the closest match is within two character corrections. For example, the search term “Coff” is autocorrected to “Coffee”. However, the search term “Cof” can’t be autocorrected to Coffee, because it takes more than two character corrections to reach Coffee.
- You can enter a maximum of 1024 characters or 32 words in the search field as a search term per search.
| Product Name (Indexed Field) | Storage | RAM (Indexed Attribute) | Display Size (Indexed Attribute) | Color (Indexed Attribute) | Graphics Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laptop 1 | 256GB | 16GB | 15Inch | Red | 16GB |
| Laptop 2 | 256GB | 32GB | 21Inch | Blue | 16GB |
| Laptop 3 | 512GB | 64GB | 15Inch | Black | 32GB |
| Laptop 4 | 512GB | 64GB | 21Inch | Silver | 32GB |
| Desktop 1 | 256GB | 16GB | 15Inch | Red | 16GB |
| Desktop 2 | 256GB | 32GB | 21Inch | Blue | 16GB |
| Desktop 3 | 512GB | 64GB | 15Inch | Black | 32GB |
| Desktop 4 | 512GB | 64GB | 21Inch | Silver | 32GB |
| Supercomputer | 1TB | 256GB | 24Inch | Gray | 128GB |
Here are some sample search terms and responses based on the indexed data.
| Search Terms | Responses | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 15Inch Laptop |
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The size field is indexed and all these products have at least 1 matching term (15Inch). |
| Desktop |
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The product name is indexed. |
| Gray Supercomputer | Supercomputer | Only one product matches the search terms. |
| Supercomptute | Supercomputer | The search term has more than 3 characters and there’s a typo with less than 2 incorrect characters. |
| 16GB |
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The RAM attribute is indexed and these two products have a matching value. Although 16GB also matches the graphics card for Laptop 2 and Desktop 2, they’re not returned in the search because the Graphics Card attribute isn’t indexed. |
| Lap | No results | Partial term matching such as prefix search isn’t supported. However, if a user searches for ‘Lapt’, the search results contain all the laptops because only 2 characters are missing and typo tolerance is supported. |
| 512GB | No results | The storage field isn’t marked as searchable and isn’t indexed. |
