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04-23-2023 06:42 AM
Hello All,
Would be possible to help and answer questions below. I just started exploring AI Search and cannot find info for these questions:
1. AI Search indexed source:
- how often the indexing happens?
- could i temporary turn it off? (how?)
- If we have two indexing (content and AI) - what is the impact on the instance?
- where could i check what fields are indexed for AI?
- if I want to index description (catalog item) - it seems it is already searchable but i dont see any set up for it
2. Field settings and mapping:
- does this tab have info for mapping for search results?
- name map_to title - what does it mean? what does field value mean in this mapping record?
- are those for EVAM and what is presented in search results to the user?
thank you!
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05-17-2023 11:44 AM
Hi Nataliya,
To answer some of your questions:
How often does indexing happen?
- Roughly every 30 seconds.
Temporarily turn it off?
- Not sure what is meant here. If you set the active flag to false, the indexed source will no longer be available to any of the profiles/applications. Flipping the flag will make it available again.
Instance impact of indexing for AI Search
- Enabling indexing is an imperceptible incremental change. Index and query processing has its own resources for AI Search.
Which fields are indexed
- All fields are indexed by default. You need to specify fields you do not want to be indexed.
Field Mapping / Settings
This is the area where you can set which fields are not indexed/searchable and where you would like the fields to be represented. There are a couple of ‘special’ fields. Those are the title and text fields. They do have a special place in the EVAM configuration, where we can leverage things like ai_search_teaser_text and ai_search_teaser_title, which allows for highlighting the results. It also has the important job of offering which fields should be considered more highly for relevancy. Custom tables should have a title and text as well to align with the ootb tables to provide consistency.

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05-17-2023 11:44 AM
Hi Nataliya,
To answer some of your questions:
How often does indexing happen?
- Roughly every 30 seconds.
Temporarily turn it off?
- Not sure what is meant here. If you set the active flag to false, the indexed source will no longer be available to any of the profiles/applications. Flipping the flag will make it available again.
Instance impact of indexing for AI Search
- Enabling indexing is an imperceptible incremental change. Index and query processing has its own resources for AI Search.
Which fields are indexed
- All fields are indexed by default. You need to specify fields you do not want to be indexed.
Field Mapping / Settings
This is the area where you can set which fields are not indexed/searchable and where you would like the fields to be represented. There are a couple of ‘special’ fields. Those are the title and text fields. They do have a special place in the EVAM configuration, where we can leverage things like ai_search_teaser_text and ai_search_teaser_title, which allows for highlighting the results. It also has the important job of offering which fields should be considered more highly for relevancy. Custom tables should have a title and text as well to align with the ootb tables to provide consistency.
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05-17-2023 03:52 PM
thank you very much @Gerard Dwan !