Customizing the Search runtime

The search runtime, REST services, and search components are all customizable.

The following table lists supported runtime customizations.

* HCL provides three levels of support.

Supported: The customization process is supported. For more information, see Contacting HCL Customer Support.
Future support: HCL intends to support the customization feature in a future release. If you have a related customization need, you can contact the HCL support team for more information.
Not supported: HCL is not planning to support such a customization feature in the future. You should avoid customizing the related area or look for alternatives in your implementation.


Runtime feature	Customization point	Level of support
Create or customize a REST service	REST Register a new customized search profile in wc-rest-resourceconfig.xml. See Mapping between profiles. Change security configuration in wc-rest-security.xml. For information on changing this file, see Enabling partial authentication and cookie-based authentication for REST services. Change REST cache configuration in wc-rest-clientCaching.xml. See Caching strategies for REST services. Change REST format in wc-rest-responseformat.xml. See Customizing REST services to support new custom response formats.	Supported
Customize the Search runtime	Create or customize the Search profile	Supported. See Customizing search profiles.
	Customize an expression provider	Supported. See Creating a custom expression provider.
	Customize the preprocessor	Supported. See Creating a custom query preprocessor.
	Customize postprocessor	Supported. Creating a custom query postprocessor
Customization by search component	Customize a search rule	Not supported
	Customize merchandising association	Not supported
	Customize sequencing	Supported. See Sorting products using deep search sequencing.
	Customize a result group	Supported. See HCL Commerce Search configuration file (wc-search.xml).
	Customize price (index offer price, index contract price)	Supported. See Displaying price ranges in the storefront.
	Customize inventory (return inventory, filter by inventory, boost inventory)	Supported. See Search relevancy and merchandising
	Customize how the CrumbTrail is displayed	Supported.
	Customize how attachments are displayed	Supported. See Managing attachments
	Customize search capability Facet Sort Highlight Pagination Spell checking Suggestion (keyword, product, category) Search Term Association Search statistics Landing page Crawler	Supported. See Search relevancy and merchandising.
	Customization for B2B entitlement	Supported. See Using catalog filters.
	Customize facets (including price, brand and attribute facet)	Supported. See Enabling custom facet value sequencing.
	Customize search type	Supported. See Changing the default search type
	Customize web content	Supported
	Customize preview	Supported. See Search properties in the component configuration file (wc-component.xml).
	Customize expansion or relevancy	Supported. Combining minimum match and search term associations
	Customization on spell checking	Supported. See Managing spell correction
	Read additional customized field from default index or customized index	Supported. See Extending the schema.xml file using the x-schema.xml file
Miscellaneous	Add support for RunAsUser
Create or build a new core or subcore	Create a customer master or extension core	Supported
Create or build a new core or subcore	Build a custom index or delta Preprocess or build an index for a customized core using IndexingService Delta build on customized core using indexingService Preview trigger buildindex Scheduler buildindex on customized core Preview on approved customized index Preview on un-approved customized index Dataload trigger buildindex for customized index	Future support