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Catalog Search

Last update: Tue Feb 04 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

The Catalog Search page in Adobe Recommendations helps you locate the products or content in your catalog. The most basic task you can perform on this page is to search for an item. In addition, you can change the environment, filter facets, modify columns in the table, add new search facets, and more.

Catalogs refer to your entire product set (entities). Your catalog can contain many collections, a way to organize your products in logical buckets.

  1. To access the Catalog Search page, click Recommendations > Catalog Search.

  2. (Optional) To apply filters to your search, click the Show Filters icon ( Show Filters icon ). You can filter by Environment, Collections, Category, Brand, Inventory, and Value.

  1. Type a search term in the Search In field.

  2. (Optional) You can refine your search by selecting a search option from the options menu that displays when you click the down arrow in the Search In field.

    Search options include the following:

    • ID
    • Name
    • Message

  3. Scroll through the items in the search results to view thumbnails and other product information.

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    NOTE
    When you perform a catalog search on a custom attribute with a numeric value, the results treat the custom attribute to be a string type instead of a numeric value.
    There is no functionality currently available that lets you change the type of an attribute. To make a change, open a customer issue referencing the attributes that need the type changed from string to numeric.

View an item’s details

You can view an individual item’s details, including ID, name, message, category, and more by viewing its details.

  1. Click an item in the search results to view its details.

Remove an item from the catalog

  1. Click an item in the search results to view its details.

  2. Click Remove from Catalog.

  3. Confirm that you want to remove the item.

All information about that item is removed from the catalog index. The item will be included in your catalog only if it is added again in a data feed. A deleted item must be separately deleted from feeds.

Refresh the catalog

The index of your catalog is automatically created when you upload your first feed, and refreshed according to the specified schedule.

The catalog is automatically refreshed when updates are received via feed files, API, or mbox updates. Updates are usually completed within an hour. If updates are in progress, the time that the most recent update started displays. If no updates are in progress, the time that the most recent update started and finished displays.

Change the environment

Environments let you organize your sites and pre-production environments for easy management and separated reporting.

  1. Click the Show Filters icon ( Show Filters icon ).

  2. Select the desired environment from the Environment drop-down list.

Modify columns

You can modify the active columns on the Catalog Search page.

  1. Click the Customize Table icon ( Customize Table icon ).

  2. Select or deselect the desired columns that you want to display or hide.

Any changes you make are persistent across sessions.

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