Create & Configure Fields

What are the first steps to configuring your Hawksearch engine? This guides you through the most important field settings to get your engine up and going quickly.

Review Field Configuration

Below are important parts of the field configuration that should be addressed. After making changes to the fields, a full index must be rebuilt in order to see the changes.

Mark Fields to be Queried

Know what fields you have in your Hawksearch engine and set some to be queried. Be thoughtful about which fields have the query flag turned on:

Fields that are commonly queried for searches:

• Product Name/Article Title
• Department/Category
• Part Number
• Brand/Manufacturer

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Warning

Description fields on products can often return irrelevant results due to the excess words used.

Looking at the example data below, if the description field is queried, this flashlight would be returned for searches on keywords like: tent, camping, AAA batteries, brite white, white. In this case, we would not recommend the description field to be queried.

Mark Fields for Dictionary

For correcting typos and misspellings, turn the dictionary flag on for fields that should contribute to the dictionary. When the index is built, a custom dictionary is created. The data in the dictionary comes from the fields where this flag is turned on. It is not usually desirable to turn on the dictionary flag for an id field, like SKU.

If phrase corrections would make sense, turn on the phrase flag for the fields that the dictionary should take phrases from. The is recommended for fields like name, brand or category. This setting will allow the Autocorrect and Did You Mean functionality to offer phrases to the user.

More information on this functionality can be found here: Did You Mean?