Setting the type of search space

Before creating a Product Advisor search space for a category from the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator, do the following:

  1. Open the instance_name.xml from WC_installdir\instances\instance_name\xml\instance_name.xml in an editor. Where, instance_name is the name of your WebSphere Commerce instance.
  2. To create separate search category do the following:
    1. For separate search space, set the value "true" to the <CompatibilityMode> tag
      <SearchSpaceConfiguration name="Search Space Configuration">
      <CompatibilityMode value="true"/>
      <GenerateXMLFile value="false"/>
      </SearchSpaceConfiguration>
      
    2. For base search space, set the value "false" to the <CompatibilityMode> tag
      <SearchSpaceConfiguration name="Search Space Configuration">
      <CompatibilityMode value="false"/>
      <GenerateXMLFile value="false"/>
      </SearchSpaceConfiguration>
      
  3. Save the instance_name.xml and restart the WebSphere Commerce instance for the changes to take effect.