WebSphere Commerce V7.0 Feature Pack 2 Search Solution Overview and Deployment

WebSphere Commerce V7.0 Feature Pack 2 Search Solution Overview and Deployment

by Brendon Baila, Nick Bleibtrey, Chandhana Nagineni, Branislav Pesic
Released July 2011
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on the enhanced search capabilities of the newest release of IBM WebSphere Commerce V7.0 Feature Pack 2. We divided this book into three parts to highlight search business-to-consumer (B2C) and search business-to-business (B2B) use cases and a conceptual overview of the search solution.

This book can help you to enable the search features of WebSphere Commerce V7.0 Feature Pack 2 and set up the WebSphere Commerce search environment, experience the design and management of Solr indexes, and experience several B2C scenarios using the Madisons Feature Pack 2 (FEP2) store.

This book gives you a broad understanding of the WebSphere Commerce integrated search solution that provides control over search results through a new set of search management tools:

  • Search term association in the Catalogs tool

  • Marketing web activity tool

  • Marketing dialog activity tool

Search activity tool

This book describes search index life-cycle management and examines each area, such as index building, synchronization, configuration, and replication. This book describes the entitlement feature that is provided through the WebSphere Commerce search framework. We also discuss a B2B use case and provide the implementation using catalog filters and contracts.

This book is designed for use by WebSphere Commerce developers, practitioners, and solution architects in various industries.

Table of contents

  1. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  2. Preface
    1. The team who wrote this book
    2. Now you can become a published author, too!
    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  3. Part 1: Conceptual overview of the search solution
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction
  5. Chapter 2: Search solution architecture
    1. 2.1: Understanding WebSphere Commerce search
    2. 2.2: Using WebSphere Commerce search to influence starter store search results
      1. Search term associations
      2. Search-based merchandising rules
      3. Integrating starter stores
      4. Limitations
  6. Part 2: Business-to-consumer (B2C) scenario
  7. Chapter 3: Search business rules
    1. 3.1: Search Term Association tool
      1. Synonyms
      2. Replacement terms (1/2)
      3. Replacement terms (2/2)
      4. Landing Page tab
    2. 3.2: Search-driven merchandising and marketing
      1. Change Search Result Order (1/5)
      2. Change Search Result Order (2/5)
      3. Change Search Result Order (3/5)
      4. Change Search Result Order (4/5)
      5. Change Search Result Order (5/5)
      6. Specify Top Search Result (1/2)
      7. Specify Top Search Result (2/2)
      8. Add or replace search criteria (1/2)
      9. Add or replace search criteria (2/2)
      10. Product recommendations (1/2)
      11. Product recommendations (2/2)
      12. Product promotion (1/3)
      13. Product promotion (2/3)
      14. Product promotion (3/3)
  8. Chapter 4: Search index life-cycle management
    1. 4.1: Full and delta index building
      1. Full versus delta index building
      2. Automatic index synchronization
      3. Index building configuration
      4. Replication
  9. Chapter 5: Troubleshooting
    1. 5.1: Starting the Solr server
    2. 5.2: Querying cores
      1. Querying cores directly on the Solr server
      2. Querying cores from the storefront
    3. 5.3: Errors encountered during search life-cycle management
  10. Chapter 6: Search environment setup
    1. 6.1: WebSphere Commerce search deployment overview
      1. WebSphere Commerce environment and search configuration
      2. Deployment options
      3. Deploying the search server
      4. Deployment illustrations
      5. Publishing the store after the search deployment
    2. 6.2: Deploying the WebSphere Commerce search using the advanced configuration
      1. Deployment procedure overview
    3. 6.3: Preparing the local WebSphere Commerce machine and feature enablement
      1. Installing and updating the plan for WebSphere Commerce V7.0 Server and its components
      2. WebSphere Commerce foundation feature enablement procedure
      3. Madisons starter store enhancement enablement procedure (1/3)
      4. Madisons starter store enhancement enablement procedure (2/3)
      5. Madisons starter store enhancement enablement procedure (3/3)
    4. 6.4: Preparing the remote search server
      1. Preparing the remote search machine procedure
    5. 6.5: Installing WebSphere Application Server with default profile creation and update
      1. Updating the WebSphere Application Server V7.0 Installer
      2. Updating WebSphere Application Server V7.0
    6. 6.6: Installing the database client
      1. Connecting to the remote DB2 server
    7. 6.7: Installing the web server
    8. 6.8: Deploying the Solr application
      1. Copying the search component from the WebSphere Commerce machine to the remote search machine
      2. Updating the property values in the solr-deploy.properties file
      3. Running the Solr deployment script
    9. 6.9: Configuring the web server for the Solr application
    10. 6.10: Creating the mappings from the WebSphere Commerce server to the remote server for search term associations
    11. 6.11: Testing the search deployment
    12. 6.12: Setting up and deploying the search index
      1. Complete indexing procedure description
    13. 6.13: Setting up the WebSphere Commerce search index remotely
      1. Index setup preparation
      2. Preparing the WebSphere Commerce machine
      3. Preparing the remote search machine
    14. 6.14: Preprocessing the WebSphere Commerce search index data
      1. Result
    15. 6.15: Building the WebSphere Commerce search index
    16. 6.16: Replicating the WebSphere Commerce search
      1. Preparation
      2. Configuring the search master machine
      3. Configuring the search slave machine
    17. 6.17: Advanced search configuration and heterogeneous deployment scenarios
      1. Setting up language cores on separate Solr servers (1/2)
      2. Setting up language cores on separate Solr servers (2/2)
  11. Chapter 7: Index design and data load
    1. 7.1: Solr V1.3 indexes
    2. 7.2: IBM WebSphere Commerce V7.0 index
      1. Catalogs
      2. Setting up the search index
      3. Preprocessing the index data
      4. Building the search index
      5. Maintenance
    3. 7.3: Scenario: Display only products with inventory
      1. Adding the inventory field to the catalog index
      2. Index maintenance
    4. 7.4: Building catalog indexes from XML files
    5. 7.5: Reference
      1. WebSphere Commerce V7.0 search metadata
  12. Chapter 8: Storefront
    1. 8.1: Enabling search-based navigation
    2. 8.2: Full-text search
    3. 8.3: Auto suggest
    4. 8.4: Spelling correction and search term suggestion
    5. 8.5: Phrase search
    6. 8.6: Wild cards
    7. 8.7: Facets display
    8. 8.8: Interactive breadcrumb trail
    9. 8.9: Search term highlight
    10. 8.10: Multiple views
      1. Grid view
      2. Details view
    11. 8.11: Index or calculate displayed price
    12. 8.12: Configurable sort options
    13. 8.13: Drag and drop results
    14. 8.14: Bookmark results
  13. Part 3: Business-to-business (B2B) scenario
    1. Building search expressions
    2. Product entitlement
  14. Chapter 9: Catalog entitlement
    1. 9.1: Catalog entitlement (1/3)
    2. 9.1: Catalog entitlement (2/3)
    3. 9.1: Catalog entitlement (3/3)
  15. Part 4: Appendixes
  16. Appendix A: Log file lookup
  17. Appendix B: Configuration files
  18. Appendix C: Index design and data load
    1. C.1: IBM WebSphere Commerce V7.0 catalog index SQL
      1. Setting up the search index
      2. Preprocessing the index data
      3. Building the search index (1/2)
      4. Building the search index (2/2)
      5. Maintenance
    2. C.2: Scenario: Display only products with inventory
      1. Adding the inventory field to the catalog index
      2. Index maintenance
  19. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks publications
    2. Online resources
    3. Help from IBM (1/2)
    4. Help from IBM (2/2)
  20. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: WebSphere Commerce V7.0 Feature Pack 2 Search Solution Overview and Deployment
  • Author(s): Brendon Baila, Nick Bleibtrey, Chandhana Nagineni, Branislav Pesic
  • Release date: July 2011
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None