Live Search rules combine logic with actions to shape a shopper’s search experience in your store. You can use rules to boost, bury, pin, or hide products to calibrate search results in real time to support your business goals.
Each rule has three main components:
You can combine multiple conditions and actions, and schedule a rule to be active for a period.
A simple rule can have a single condition and a single event, while a complex rule can have up to ten conditions that trigger up to 25 events.
Rules can have:
Query text can contain:
The logical operators AND
and OR
join two conditions and return different results. All logical operators used in a rule with multiple conditions are the same. It is not possible to use both AND
and OR
in the same rule.
The Match operators All
and Any
determine the logical operator that is used to join multiple conditions in the rule, and can be used to change the existing operator.
All
- Uses the AND
logical operator to join multiple conditions. A rule that uses the All
Match operator can have only one Search query is
condition.Any
- Uses the OR
logical operator to join multiple conditions.When composing a complex rule, it can help to write it out with indentation to describe the conditions, associated events, and product names or SKUs that are needed to return the results you want to achieve. Then, build the rule and test the result.
Only one rule is applied to a search term at any one time.
If multiple rules are found to be applicable to a search phrase, then all these rules are applied. If there is a collision between two rules—rule 1
that boosts sku1 but rule 2
hides the same SKU—then the most recently applied rule (rule 2
) takes precedence.
query is
condition takes precedence over other conditions. If a newer rule contains a query contains
condition, but an older rule has a query is
condition, the query is
rule is applied.If an active rule containing a query is
condition matches the search phrase, it is applied. If there are multiple matching rules with a query is
condition, the most recently updated active rule is applied.
Otherwise, the most recently updated active rule is applied.
Request made in the Admin work slightly differently. When previewing in the Admin, all rules are applied, including those expired and scheduled.
query is
condition, it is applied.query is
condition, and a subsequent active, matching rule with a query is
condition is found, the query is
rule is applied.query is
condition, and no other rule with a query is
condition is found, then the rule being previewed is applied.Live Search allows you to filter by Categories.
However, in Adobe Commerce you can create a virtual category with Category product assignments. This type of category is built at runtime and does not exist in the category database. Therefore, Live Search cannot read or use this category type.