| Autocomplete |
| Setting Name | Description |
| Autocomplete | If On, users will see the autocomplete drop-down as they type in the search box. |
| Category Limit | The maximum number of category autocomplete results that display. Maximum value: 10 |
| Product Limit | The maximum number of product autocomplete results that display. Maximum value: 10 |
| Show Categories | If On, category autocomplete results will show up as the user starts typing in the search box. |
| Show Products | If On, product autocomplete results will show up as the user starts typing in the search box. |
| Show Website Pages | If On, CMS pages will show up as autocomplete results as the user is typing in the search box. |
| Website Pages Limit | The maximum number of CMS page autocomplete results that display. Maximum value: 10 |
| Fuzzy Search |
| Setting Name | Description |
| Fuzzy Search | If On, fuzzy search is enabled on the site. |
| Max Edits | The maximum number of character edits that can be made to a search string to return a match. This can be either a character swapped for a different character or a character being added or removed. |
| Prefix Length | The number of initial characters that must match and will not be fuzzified. A value below 2 will result in performance issues. |
| General Settings |
| Setting Name | Description |
| Attribute Filters | If On, attributes (attribute values grouped by attribute type) will be facted on the left nav of the product list to be used as filters. This does not control category or price faceting. Reindexing is required for changes to this setting to take effect. |
| Elasticsearch URL | The Elasticsearch search URL. This setting has been removed and is now configured in the appSettings.config file of the project. |
| Log Product Search Queries | If Yes, product search queries will be included in the Application Logs. This should only be used by developers and will result in a lot of data if enabled. |
| Maximum Facets | The maximum number of attribute values or category check boxes that will display for each section in the left nav of the product list. |
| Price Sort Maximum | If less than this number of products are returned in search results, users will be able to sort by price. If more than this number are returned price sorting will not be presented in the product list sort drop-down. |
| Product Boosting | If On, specific products can be boosted to display higher or lower in search results. If No, product boosting values are ignored. |
| Search History | If On, users will see their previous searches when they click the search box and nothing is in it. |
| Search History Limit | The number of previous searches that will display to the user when they click the search box and nothing is in it. |
| Show Attributes On Search | If Yes, attribute facets will appear for search results, not just category pages. |
| Stopword Mode | Determines what list of common words to exclude from search queries. If Custom, the list from Search - Stopwords in the Admin Console is used. If default, the internal list of English Lucene stopwords is used. If None, no stop words will be used. Reindexing is required for changes to this setting to take effect. |
| Website Specific Attributes | If On, website and category attribute faceting is enabled. |
| Partial Matching |
| Setting Name | Description |
| Minimum Match Count | The minimum number of words that must match to return a result. Negative numbers indicate the number of optional words. Works in conjunction with Minimum Match Percent. Default is 2. |
| Minimum Match Percent | The percentage of all words that must match to return a result (rounded down). Negative numbers indicate the percent of optional words that can be missing. This works in conjunction with Minimum Match Count. Deafult is 75. |
| Product Search Index |
| Setting Name | Description |
| Batch Size for Product Indexing | The number of products to send to Elasticsearch in each request during indexing. Reindexing is required for changes to this setting to take effect. |
| Concurrent Requests for Product Indexing | The number of concurrent requests to make to Elasticsearch during product indexing. Reindexing is required for changes to this setting to take effect. |
| Search Suggestions |
| Setting Name | Description |
| AutoCorrect Threshold | Autocorrect is used to return corrected results for mistyped search queries automatically and this value is the threshold to determine what will be automatically fixed. The lower the number the more errors will be tolerated without autocorrect being used. This should be higher than or equal to the DidYouMean Threshold. |
| DidYouMean Threshold | DidYouMean is used to suggest alternate terms for mistyped search queries and this value is the threshold at which a suggestion is made. With 1 meaning a better suggestion than the original phrase. This should be lower than or equal to the AutoCorrect Threshold |
| Enable Search Suggestions | If On, autocorrect and DidYouMean will be active on the site. |
| Max Edits | The maximum number of characters that can be changed on a word to be considered as a suggestion. |
| Max Errors | The maximum number of errors that can be corrected when generating suggestions. If a decimal between 0 and 1 this indicates a percentage of words that can be corrected. Whole numbers greater than or equal to 1 can be used to specify the exact number of words that can be corrected. Numbers higher than 2 may have a negative impact on performance. |
| Sponsored Search |
| Setting Name | Description |
| Sponsored Search | If On, specific products can be flagged as sponsored and boosted to the top of search results. Sponsored flag is set for individual products in the product boosting screen. |
| Sponsored Search Limit | The maximum number of sponsored products matching the search query that will be displayed at the top of search results. |
