Introduced in Feature Pack 2

WebSphere Commerce search tutorials

The following tutorials describe how to customize WebSphere Commerce search.

Tutorial Learning Objectives Description
Adding catalog entry information to WebSphere Commerce search
After you complete this tutorial, you should be familiar with the following concepts:
  • The CatalogNavigationViewType noun
After completing this tutorial, you should be able to perform the following tasks:
  • Understand and customize WebSphere Commerce search
In this tutorial, WebSphere Commerce search is used to enable searching on new custom database tables, where they are then searched upon from the storefront. This scenario assumes that the custom tables are created and might contain data. This tutorial involves adding new search schema fields, a search profile, and changing the catalog search service. The changes to the catalog search service include adding UserData information in the CatalogNavigationViewType noun by using the wc-business-object-mediator.xml file.
Indexing ratings data in WebSphere Commerce search from an external source
After completing this tutorial, you should be familiar with the following concepts:
  • Indexing
After completing this tutorial, you should be able to perform the following tasks:
  • Understand and customize WebSphere Commerce search
  • Understand and customize the preprocessing and indexing process
In this tutorial, you add the ability to index data from a source external to the WebSphere Commerce database. You then add Management Center support for ranking product search results based on the indexed data.
Feature Pack 4Feature Pack 3Adding suggestion groups to the auto-suggest menu
After completing this tutorial, you should be familiar with the following concepts:
  • WebSphere Commerce search auto-suggest menu.
After completing this tutorial, you should be able to perform the following tasks:
  • Customize the auto suggest menu to display your own suggestion groups.
In this tutorial, you customize the auto-suggest menu for your storefront search to display a new navigation suggestion group in the menu. The auto-suggest menu is available in your WebSphere Commerce starter store when you enable WebSphere Commerce search.
Feature Pack 6 or laterIndexing external inventory data in WebSphere Commerce search
After completing this tutorial, you should be familiar with the following concepts:
  • WebSphere Commerce search indexing
After completing this tutorial, you should be able to perform the following tasks:
  • Understand and customize WebSphere Commerce search
  • Understand and customize the Data Load utility framework to load the external data source
In this tutorial, you add the ability to index inventory data from an external source in WebSphere Commerce Search. The external source in this tutorial provides product inventory data.

Feature Pack 6Indexing profit margin data for use in dynamic product recommendation

Feature Pack 7 or laterIndexing profit margin data for use in dynamic product recommendation

After completing this tutorial, you should be familiar with the following concepts and tasks:
  • WebSphere Commerce search indexing
  • Understand and customize WebSphere Commerce search
  • Understand and customize the preprocessing and indexing process
  • Understand and customize the product recommendation that is based on a custom field
In this tutorial, you can use specific search conditions to dynamically recommend products to customers based on the profit margin for the products.