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description: In B2C Commerce Business Manager you can create stop words and synonyms, modify guided search ranking, view statistics, view index documents along with their indexed fields, and rebuild indexes. You can also manage the capabilities of full text search indexes.
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# Generate Search Indexes

In B2C Commerce Business Manager you can create stop words and synonyms, modify guided search ranking, view statistics, view index documents along with their indexed fields, and rebuild indexes. You can also manage the capabilities of full text search indexes.

The search index uses one index for each index type: Product, Spelling, Content, Synonym, and Suggest. This index contains all localized and non-localized data for all storefront locales.

Dependencies between indexes require that some indexes are built together.

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-cc-b2c_merchandiser_administrator-264-0-0-production-enus/ea76f372-6cfa-42a6-8e7c-05c6df7abed8/images/icon_note.png)

Note You can run test queries on the product index.

1. Click App Launcher ![App Launcher](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-cc-b2c_merchandiser_administrator-264-0-0-production-enus/ea76f372-6cfa-42a6-8e7c-05c6df7abed8/cc/b2c_merchandiser_administrator/images/appLauncher.png), and then select **site** | **Merchant Tools** | **Search** | **Search Indexes**.
2. On the Search Indexes page, click the **Language Options** link to configure language specific stemming, and term completion and correction settings.
    
    If search isn’t required for the locale, you can exclude locales from the indexing process.
3. On the Search Indexes page, if no full-text index has been built yet or you want to update an index, select one or more indexes using the checkboxes and click **Rebuild**.
    
    All index updates are performed asynchronously in the background for all locales. Old indexes remain operational until new indexes are ready.
    
    Progress information for the rebuild appears in the Status field.
4. On the Search Indexes page, click the index type you want to manage, for example, click the **Product Index**.
    
    The Search Indexes details page that opens enables you to manage full-text search indexes that are used in your site to fulfill search requests. This table shows the tabs that appear for each index type:
    
    <table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small ">
            <colgroup>
              <col>
              <col>
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            <thead class="slds-text-title_caps ">
              <tr class="">
                <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:bottom;" id="d212819e118">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">
                    <strong>Index Type</strong>
                  </p>
                </th>
                <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:bottom;" id="d212819e127">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">
                    <strong>Tabs</strong>
                  </p>
                </th>
              </tr>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
              <tr class="">
                <td data-label="Index Type" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d212819e118 ">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Product</p>
                </td>

                <td data-label="Tabs" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d212819e127 ">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">General, Sorting Attributes, Statistics, Documents</p>
                </td>

              </tr>
              <tr class="">
                <td data-label="Index Type" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d212819e118 ">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Spelling</p>
                </td>

                <td data-label="Tabs" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d212819e127 ">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">General, Statistics, Documents</p>
                </td>

              </tr>
              <tr class="">
                <td data-label="Index Type" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d212819e118 ">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Content</p>
                </td>

                <td data-label="Tabs" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d212819e127 ">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">General, Sorting Attributes, Statistics, Documents</p>
                </td>

              </tr>
              <tr class="">
                <td data-label="Index Type" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d212819e118 ">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Synonym</p>
                </td>

                <td data-label="Tabs" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d212819e127 ">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">General, Statistics, Documents</p>
                </td>

              </tr>
              <tr class="">
                <td data-label="Index Type" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d212819e118 ">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Suggestion</p>
                </td>

                <td data-label="Tabs" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d212819e127 ">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">General, Statistics, Documents</p>
                </td>

              </tr>
              <tr class="">
                <td data-label="Index Type" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d212819e118 ">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Active Data</p>
                </td>

                <td data-label="Tabs" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d212819e127 ">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">General, Statistics, Documents</p>
                </td>

              </tr>
              <tr class="">
                <td data-label="Index Type" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d212819e118 ">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Availability</p>
                </td>

                <td data-label="Tabs" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d212819e127 ">
                  <p style="margin-bottom:0;">General, Statistics, Documents</p>
                </td>

              </tr>
            </tbody>
          </table>
5. On the Search Indexes details page (Product Index page, for example), on the General tab, you can set the indexing mode for your storefront.
    
    Updates: Enable**Scheduled** **Index Rebuild** or **Incremental Index Updates**
    
    Indexing Mode: Select **Compact - Production** or **Verbose - Development**
6. Click the **Sorting Attributes** tab (on the Product Index page) to add sorting attributes that are called directly from a pipeline.
    
    Only required for sorting attributes that aren’t used by the sorting rules feature.
7. To view information about all indexed terms, click the **Statistics** tab. On this page you see:
    - Index summary: Number of indexed elements and the specific indexed fields.
    - Term frequency: By term and locale (for example, de\_DE, default, en\_US, and en\_CA).
    - Dictionaries: By locale, where you can click **Analyze Terms** and then analyze terms by locale.
8. To see indexing information for a specific product, click the **Documents** tab.

#### See Also

- [Rebuild Search Indexes (Video)](https://salesforce.vidyard.com/watch/WeAGCMnGAWyTkEqgXJpdWh)