ATG Search - how the search rules are deployed as refinement config xmls during search indexing

The rules that make up the search configurations are created in ATG Merchandising and stored as repository items in the RefinementRepository. When the product catalog is deployed from the ATG Merchandising environment to the target site, the RefinementRepository is deployed as well.

For the soap call from the commerce instance to the search engine, for text queries we normally use refineConfig=”map” and the search engine itself determines the right refine config for the query.

When Search Administration initiates indexing of the product catalog, it also invokes the /atg/commerce/search/config/CatalogRankConfigAdapter component. This component is a customization adapter that manages the process of generating the search configuration files and submitting them to ATG Search.

To generate the search configuration files, CatalogRankConfigAdapter invokes the /atg/search/repository/SearchConfigurationXMLGenerator component (of class atg.repository.search.indexing.config.SearchConfigurationXMLGenerator). This component is responsible for transforming the repository items into the XML files that represents rule sets in ATG Search.

SearchConfigurationXMLGenerator calls various other components that parse the rules in the RefinementRepository and generate XML representations of those rules. These are known an the refinement config xmls. You could find below a sample refinement config xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><refineConfig name="categorycat171770058" specificity="4"><mapping>cat4880034</mapping><mapping>cat171770066:catalog10001</mapping><refineElement exclude="" filter="1" id="20008" label="Brand" order="" property="childSKUs.brandName" range="false" select="" sort="count" type="string"/><refineElement exclude="" filter="1" id="35002" label="Age" order="" property="childSKUs.Age" range="false" select="" sort="count" type="string"/><refineElement exclude="" filter="1" id="20018" label="Sub-category" order="" property="sub-category.$repositoryId" range="false" select="" sort="count" type="string"/></refineConfig>

Comments

ATG : Oracle started new discussion forum for ATG

Oracle has started a new ATG discussion forum on oracle discussion forums. It has a main ATG section and is divided into technical and business categories. You can access the url http://forums.oracle.com/forums/category.jspa?categoryID=503 . After Oracle acquired ATG, this was much expected and we can hope this forum might give us a better chance to discuss our ATG doubts and more people will come and discuss about ATG. Find the ATG docs @ http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/atgwebcommerce-393465.html

Eclipse plug-in to create Class and Sequence diagrams

ModelGoon is an Eclipse plug-in avaiable for UML diagram generation from Java code. It can be used to generate Package Dependencies Diagram, Class Diagram, Interaction Diagram and Sequence Diagram. You coud get it from http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/modelgoon-uml4java Read more about it and see some vedios about how to create the class and sequence diagram @ http://www.modelgoon.org/?tag=eclipse-plugin Find some snapshots below which gives an idea about the diagram generation.

ATG Product Catalog schema ER diagram

Check out the O rder schema ER-Diagram @ http://tips4ufromsony.blogspot.in/2012/02/atg-order-schema-er-diagram.html Check out the User Profile schema ER-Diagram @ http://tips4ufromsony.blogspot.in/2012/03/atg-user-profile-schema-er-diagram.html If you would like to know the relationship between different Product Catalog tables, please find below screen shots of Product Catalog schema ER Diagrams.

Useful windows shortcut keys

Following are the most useful set of windows shortcut keys that I would like to share with you. run commands calc --> Calculator mspaint --> To get Paint textpad --> To get Textpad if installed cmd --> Opens a new Command Window (cmd.exe) control --> Displays Control Panel msconfig --> Configuration to edit startup files compmgmt.msc --> Computer management fsmgmt.msc --> Folder Sharing Management services.msc --> System Services appwiz.cpl --> Add/Remove Programs ncpa.cpl --> Network Connections %userprofile% --> Opens you User's Profile %temp% --> Opens temporary file Folder temp ...

Jsp and CSS size limits that web developers need to aware

Here I am listing some erroneous cases that might occur in your web development phase, due to some size restrictions. JSP file size limit : You might get some run time exceptions that the JSP file size limit exceeds. Please find below the reason : In JVM the size of a single JAVA method is limited to 64kb. When the jsp file is converted to Servlet, if the jspservice method's size exceeds the 64kb limit, this exception will occur. Keep in mind that this exception depends on the implementation of the JSP translator, means the same JSP code may give an exception in Tomcat and may run successfully in Weblogic due to the the difference in the logic to built the Servlet methods from JSP. The best way to omit this issue is by using dynamic include.For example, if you are using <%@ include file="sample.jsp" %> (static include), replace this to ...

Tips from Sony Thomas

Search This Blog