--- schema_version: "1" id: 293c25e8dfddcbf7d5f4981689e00dff8c4c62bec2c332e4a88bfa4e96462f03 title: Commerce Search Index Considerations collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/commerce/264-0-0/comm_search_index_considerations.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=commerce.comm_search_index_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: e51ee32d2598ab44c3e03b041435a0de6a22f6d025c928511a47a5ca39eddc75 description: Before activating your B2B Commerce store, update your search index to enable shoppers to see products on your search and category pages. Also update the search index after you make changes to your store configuration or product catalog. If you only modify price books or price book entries, you don’t need to update the index unless you have a sort rule based on price. You can manually update your index or turn on automatic updates. products: - Commerce - B2B Commerce release: "264" --- # Commerce Search Index Considerations Before activating your B2B Commerce store, update your search index to enable shoppers to see products on your search and category pages. Also update the search index after you make changes to your store configuration or product catalog. If you only modify price books or price book entries, you don’t need to update the index unless you have a sort rule based on price. You can manually update your index or turn on automatic updates. ### Required Editions
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[Which Salesforce Commerce Product Do I Have?](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=commerce.comm_what_product.htm&language=en_US) When updating the search index, keep these considerations in mind. - The search index includes only variation child products and simple products. Variation parent products aren’t included when you update the index and are only used as decoration. When you enable **Show parent product only** in the Product Variation Display Settings, the search results are decorated with the variation parent although the match is on the variation child product. - Products without entitlement policies are included in the index but aren’t searchable. - Products with more than 2,000 buyer groups are excluded from the index. - When both **Displayable Fields** and **Show Parent Product Only** are enabled, search returns only the best-matched product, which can be either the parent product or a child product, depending on which one best matches the user’s query. - Update your search index whenever you change or remove these items. - Product or product attribute fields that are marked as searchable, sortable, or filterable - Values of product fields that are marked as searchable or filterable - Products in the store’s catalog - Product translations in the store’s catalog - Categories or the category hierarchy structure - Category names - Translations of category names - Languages in a store or catalog - Language translations for a store or catalog - Products in an entitlement policy - Product variation grouping - Sorting rules - Geolocation of your organization - Names of custom fields on the Product2 object #### See Also - [Update the Commerce Search Index](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=commerce.comm_search_index_build.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Update your search index so that changes to your products appear on your search and category pages. You can manually update the index or turn on automatic system updates.") - [Commerce Search Index Update Methods](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=commerce.comm_search_index_update_methods.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "You can run a partial or full search index update depending on the type of information that has changed in your B2B Commerce store configuration or product catalog.") - [Mark Products as Searchable or Not Searchable](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=commerce.comm_search_mark_products.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "After you create your initial search index, all products in the catalog are searchable by default. If you want to make a product not searchable, you can exclude it from search. You can change whether a product is searchable at any time.") - [Mark Product Fields as Searchable or Not Searchable for a B2B Commerce Store](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=commerce.comm_search_mark_fields.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Marking fields as searchable helps the search engine index more content, improving search accuracy and relevance in you B2B Commerce store. Avoid marking fields as searchable if the fields contain sensitive information or provide generic data.") - [Enable Semantic Search for Commerce](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=commerce.comm_einstein_enable_semantic_search.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Semantic search improves your search results by matching and returning items that are semantically related to a query. Semantic search requires a Content Security Policy (CSP) trusted site for the Commerce Einstein domain.") - [Configure How to Display Product Variation Search Results](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=commerce.comm_var_group_setup_search.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Tailor how search results appear on your B2B store Product List page. You can opt to show only the parent product, only the best matching product, or all the variations of the parent product.") - [Enable Displayable Fields in Commerce (Beta)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=commerce.comm_enable_displayable_fields.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Enable displayable fields to decrease page load times and retrieve product data faster on search, product, cart, and checkout pages for B2B Commerce stores.")