Live Search Release Notes

3.1.1 and prior

Live Search 3.1.1

September 15, 2023

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

New Category Merchandising tab has been added. Users can now add Intelligent Rankings and Manual Rankings (pin, boost, bury, hide) per category
Users can add a single category rule with intelligent or manual ranking
Users can now add Intelligent Ranking rules to subcategories
Detailed information is provided when deleting subcategories with intelligent ranking
Added the ability to delete rules for inherited ranking strategies
Added the ability to delete rules for a single category
Users can now search by category name when adding a rule
With the Category Tree View, users can now view which category has rules applied.
Category Preview only shows the selected category.
AEM CIF Popover widget and PLP widget components allow AEM sites to take advantage of Live Search.

Updates

The table size of the Products and Price feeds have been greatly reduced. Tables catalog_data_exporter_products and catalog_data_exporter_product_prices should see a substantial size reduction.
The ‘Rules’ tab is renamed to ‘Search Rules’
When ranking by ‘trending’, you can now choose between:

• 3 days (default)
• 14 days
• 30 days
  ‘Events’ (Boost/Pin/Bury/Hide) has been renamed to ‘Manual Ranking’
  ‘Ranking Type’ has been renamed to ‘Intelligent ranking’
  Minor bug fixes

Live Search 3.1.0

September 1, 2023

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

Updates

The Product Listing widget has been updated to use the Catalog Service API.

Live Search 3.0.2

August 7, 2023

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

New features

The following values have been added to the storeDetails object:

• “Allow All Products per Page”
• Currency rate
• “Products per Page on Grid Allowed Values”
• “Products per Page on Grid Default Value”
• Store language

Updates

Catalog Service modules have been added to the metapackage to support advanced data retrieval.
The My Account page navigation no longer disappears when using the Product Listing Page widget.

Merchants must upgrade the Live Search extension version >= 3.0.2 to access these features.

It is recommended to upgrade and test before pushing to production. Consider upgrading the production environment during off-peak hours after verifying their testing environment results.

Limitations

Using the Live Search Product Listing Page widget causes Google Tag Manager to fail. Use the default Search Adapter if Google Tag Manager is needed.

Live Search 3.0.1

March 14, 2023

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

New features

Product Item Card in Rules preview
Product Listing Page widget
Category filtering options
Added the ability to drag and drop to create Pin events
New Pin actions:

• Pin to spot - Pin button to create Pin event with one click
• Pin to top - Places product in the first position
• Pin to bottom - Places the product at the bottom of the results
• Unpin an event with one click
  Intelligent Ranking for rules
  Live Search now supports full Inventory Management capabilities in Commerce (formerly knows as Multi-Source Inventory, or MSI). To enable full support, you must update the dependency module commerce-data-export to version 102.2.0+.

Updates

Configure Rules now automatically sorts positions uniquely
Deleting an existing event now updates preview
Rules with no events can be saved
Remove faceting “Select Type” selector
Added new “Editing” status for unsaved rules

Fixes

Fixed server error when there is an unfinished event during save
Fixed correctly deleting specific event when there are multiple events
Fixed existing rule event not updating when new event has been added
Fixed on second “Edit” click from details, Live Search page requiring reload
Synonyms: Fixed an issue when a user clicked out of input, they could not return the focus to the field
Other minor bug fixes and performance updates
- Ranking by “Recommended for you” is only supported within the Live Search widgets. It is not supported with the default Luma and PWA search functionality.
- Custom price attribute facets do not render correctly in Luma, but the API properly filters on them.

Merchants must upgrade the Live Search extension version >= 3.0.1 to access these features.

It is recommended to upgrade and test before pushing to production. Consider upgrading the production environment during off-peak hours after verifying their testing environment results.

Live Search 2.0.5

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

- Live Search would throw an error when SDK resources were not available due to network issues. This bug is fixed.

Merchants must upgrade the Live Search extension version >= 2.0.5 to access these features.

It is recommended to upgrade and test before pushing to production. Consider upgrading the production environment during off-peak hours after verifying their testing environment results.

Live Search 2.0.4

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

Live Search now supports filtering by the ‘Display Out of Stock Products’ setting in the admin. If ‘Display Out of Stock Products’ is set to false, inStock = true is added to the filter.
To improve performance, the ‘Suggestions’ block has been removed from the Live Search popup. The data is still passed through GraphQL, in case you want to replace the feature.
categories and categoryPath have replaced categoryIds for category filtering. Read more in the productSearch topic.
Previously, a user tied to a B2B company would receive an incorrect Customer Group Code when doing searches. Live Search now returns the correct value.
Previously, when searching for a term that does not exist, Live Search would return an error. That bug is now fixed.

Merchants must upgrade the Live Search extension version >= 2.0.4 to access these features.

Users are advised to upgrade and test before pushing to production. Consider upgrading the production environment during off-peak hours after verifying their testing environment results.

Live Search 2.0.3

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

Live Search now supports B2B features by honoring category permissions, shared catalogs, and customer group-specific pricing.

Merchants must upgrade the Live Search extension version >= 2.0.3 to access these features.

Users are advised to upgrade and test before pushing to production. Consider upgrading the production environment during off-peak hours after verifying their testing environment results.

Live Search 2.0

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4 and newer

Existing Live Search installations must be upgraded to Live Search 2.0.0 to take advantage of the following new features, fixes, and improvements:

Live Search now supports PHP 8.1 for installations running Adobe Commerce 2.4.4.
The Magento_ElasticsearchCatalogPermissionsGraphQl module is added to the list of modules that are disabled during the installation.
The number of available lines in the storefront popover can be configured from the Admin.
Beta PWA supported for Live Search.
The Live Search installation process is updated with advanced process changes.
Advanced Search link removed from the storefront footer.
The following product attributes are not supported by Commerce GraphQL API when used in relation to the beta release of PWA: description, name, short_description
The beta release of PWA for Live Search does not support event handling.

Live Search 1.3.1

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.x and newer

Custom price attribute no longer returns an error when configured as a facet.
Fixed issue that caused an error to occur when no currency symbol (data-currency-symbol) is available.
Storefront popover now shows the Special Price (minimum final price) when available.

Live Search 1.3.0

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.x and newer

Performance reporting dashboard provides insight into search terms that shoppers use.
Live Search Storefront Events SDK provides access to a common data layer with event publishing and subscription services, and metrics.
The Storefront popover has a new active class for the .search-autocomplete container that controls visibility.
In the storefront, the Search Terms footer link is removed and its cache disabled for Live Search installations.
Patch for Search Adapter handles duplicate products.
Live Search supports single-source (physical) inventory locations with multiple (virtual) stocks. Multiple inventory sources are not supported now.

Live Search 1.2.0

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.x and newer

Storefront popover displays suggested products and thumbnail images of top search results as shoppers type queries into the Search box.
Commerce Admin session stays open during extended periods of keyboard inactivity
Live Search is automatically enabled after onboarding
Initial indexing time is less than an hour
Incremental product updates near real time (after install and setup)
Sortable columns in Synonym editor
Live Search no longer throws an error if search criteria contains empty sort order value
Range filtering no longer breaks if attribute codes contain strings “to” or “from”

Live Search 1.1.0

[Supported]{class="badge informative" title="Supported"} Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.x and newer

The Live Search service supports only the base currency of the Adobe Commerce installation.
When adding a facet, the Product Attributes Feed does not update correctly when set to Update on Save. To avoid this problem, go to Index Management and set Product Attributes Feed to Update by Schedule.
Live Search synonyms are defined per store view, but are currently stored per website and identified with a combination of environmentId and storeViewCode. As a result, all websites and store views within the Adobe Commerce installation share synonyms. The most recently created set of synonyms for the store view takes precedence.
If a synonym term contains multiple words, each word is treated as a separate synonym. For example, if you define “time piece” as a synonym of “watch”, both “time” and “piece” are treated as synonyms of watch.