Search Fields

With Doofinder you can configure and choose which fields your search engine should take into account when searching products and their importance with respect to the rest of the categories. This will be useful for your sales strategy, as it will help you control the criteria that your online store's search engine follows to offer results when a user performs a search.

An important factor that influences the terms displayed is that the larger the content of a field in the index, the more irrelevant the terms within it become. That is, if the keyword, for example, is in the description, it will be less relevant than if it is in a shorter field. Let's say, Apple within a description field will be much less relevant than within the Brand or Title field.

How to Add Search Fields

1. To access the Search Fields section, go to your Admin Panel > Search > Advanced Preferences > Search fields.

2. In the top bar, select the Store and Search Engine from the corresponding dropdown menus where you want to add the search fields.

3. To add more fields, just click on the Field dropdown menu > choose the field you want to add. In the main panel, you will see fields that are already included by default with their corresponding weight.

4. Give a weight to the chosen field in relation to the other fields on the Weight box, with 10 being the highest value and 1 the lowest weight.

5. Click on the "+ Add" button.

Remember to Save changes each time you create or modify a field.

If you want to have the same Search Fields in different Search Engines, click on "Copy Settings to...", select the Search Engine of your choice from the dropdown menu, and click on "Apply".

How to Delete and Reset Search Fields

If you want to delete just one search field, click on the trash icon at the right-side of that field.

If the behavior of your Search Engine is not as expected, you can always return to the initial settings by clicking the "Reset" button at the bottom-left of the panel.

Other Search Field Types

In addition to the most frequent fields (brand, color or categories) there are other fields such as:

• brand.autocomplete: as its name suggests, this field is specially designed to search based on parts of the brand.

• id.light.explode: this field improves the relevance for searches with the ID attribute.

• df_all: by selecting this field, we include in the search the content of all the fields of the data feed, enabling searches also in the rest of the fields not expressly selected. It is not optimized in any special way, so the search in this field may be less precise and should therefore be assigned a low weight. It is also responsible for allowing a perfect match on searches whose terms are in different fields.

• gtin.light.explode and mpn.light.explode: this field allows the search engine to use parts of the reference number of a product to perform searches.

• title.autocomplete: as its name suggests, this field is specially designed to search based on parts of the title.

• title.autocomplete_start: this field improves the relevance for searches of a single term. It does so by assigning more weight to results where the title starts with the same word as the term searched.