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Search settings

The settings that apply to every search live in Catalog > Settings > Search: open Settings at the bottom of the left rail and click Search in the panel. The page has four tabs: Attributes, Ranking (the order of results and what happens to out-of-stock products), Redirects (queries sent straight to a page) and Installations (the storefront connections).

Note
The Attributes tab, which opens first, shows an example table of search roles and weights. It doesn't reflect your catalog yet and nothing on it can be changed: search reads the roles and weights from your product model.

Read the ranking order

Steps

  1. In Nucleo, go to Catalog > Settings > Search > Ranking.
  2. Read the Ranking order panel. The order is fixed and marked Not configurable.
CriterionWhat it means
Relevance tierExact, then Strong, then Weak. A lower tier never outranks a higher one.
Product boostTop, then Featured, then Normal. Every product has the normal boost today.
AvailabilityIn stock, then low stock, then out of stock, following the out-of-stock setting below.
PopularityThe commercial score built from the product's own figures.

The setting Boost can lift a weaker tier is fixed to no. For the details, see How results are ordered.

Choose what happens to out-of-stock products

Keeping out-of-stock products usually suits a shop whose sizes come back: a shopper who finds the item sold out returns, one who doesn't find it thinks you don't sell it. Hiding them suits a catalog with many products that won't come back.

Steps

  1. In Nucleo, go to Catalog > Settings > Search > Ranking.
  2. In Products with no stock, select one of:
    1. Keep them, at the bottom (the default)
    2. Hide them from results

The setting saves at once and applies to every search. A message confirms it. If the setting can't be read, the selector is disabled and shows Not connected.

Add a redirect

A redirect sends a query straight to a page or a category instead of a list of results, for example gift card to your gift card page, or sale to your Sale category. Redirects are checked on the normalized query before anything else.

Steps

  1. In Nucleo, go to Catalog > Settings > Search > Redirects.
  2. Click Add redirect.
  3. In Query, type the search text.
  4. In Match, select:
    1. Exact to react only to that exact query.
    2. Starts with to react to every query that begins with it.
  5. In Target, select URL or Category, and then fill in the field next to it:
    1. For a URL, type the Path of a page of your site, such as /pages/shipping, or a full address starting with https://.
    2. For a category, type the category name, such as Sale.
  6. In Channel, keep All channels, or select Shopify to limit the redirect to that channel.
  7. Click Add redirect.

Search for the query in the Playground: instead of results, you see Redirect and the target.

Edit a redirect

Steps

  1. In Nucleo, go to Catalog > Settings > Search > Redirects.
  2. Click the redirect's row. Use Search query or target to find it.
  3. Change the query, the match, the target or the channel.
  4. Click Save changes. The button stays off until something has changed.

Remove a redirect

Steps

  1. In Nucleo, go to Catalog > Settings > Search > Redirects.
  2. On the redirect, click the trash icon.
  3. Click Delete redirect to confirm.

The redirect stops applying immediately: searching for the query shows results again.

Read the redirects list

ColumnWhat it shows
QueryThe search text and how it's matched.
TargetCategory or URL, and where it points.
ChannelAll channels, or the one channel it applies to.
Hits · 30 dHow many searches in the last 30 days the redirect answered.

Click Query, Target or Hits · 30 d in the header to sort the list.

Considerations for search settings

  • You can also create a redirect from Queries: the Add redirect fix opens the form filled in.
  • A redirect wins over synonyms and matching: once it fires, the query isn't searched.
  • The Installations tab is covered in Event tracking.
  • Synonyms and facets aren't here: they have their own pages under Catalog > Search.
  • You need the Owner, Admin or Editor role to change the out-of-stock setting and redirects. With the Viewer role you can read them.

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