Oracle Endeca SEO - Avoid repository calls for category pages.

Category pages require data like page title, keywords description for search engine optimization(SEO) from the category repository.

There are ways to get SEO specific information. ATG-Endeca Integration creates a product.category hierarchical dimension. OOTB integration does not add SEO related attributes/properties to the product.category dimension. As per best practices, get all SEO data using Endeca product.category dimension instead of making repository calls to ATG.

Endeca provides a  feature to add properties to dimension and it can be added during data export from ATG process. Oracle Endeca commerce out of box provide below attributes:

product.category > Women--;{DGraph.Spec=cat50001, category.ancestorCatalogIds=masterCatalog, category.catalogs.repositoryId=masterCatalog, category.repositoryId=cat50001, category.rootCatalogId=masterCatalog, category.siteId=storeSiteUS, record.id=atgrep:/ProductCatalog/category/cat50001?catalog=masterCatalog&categoryPath=/cat50001&locale=en_US}

Add more Attributes to Product.category dimension

Find out following steps :-

1. /atg/commerce/endeca/index/CategoryToDimensionOutputConfig use category-dim-output-config.xml to add attributes. Create this file in another layer configuration and add required attributes and properties.

2. Build Project.

3. Run baseline from /atg/commerce/endeca/index/ProductCatalogSimpleIndexingAdmin. No coding required from handler perspective.

4. Go to JSP and use code
    ${category.properties['category.title']}

Find out the sample XML below :-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<item item-descriptor-name="category" is-document="true">
  <text-properties>
     <property name="keywords" output-name="dimval.prop.category.keywords" type="string" is-multi="true" xml-combine="replace"/>
     <property name="longDescription" output-name="dimval.prop.category.longDescription" type="string"/>
     <property name="title" output-name="dimval.prop.category.title" type="string"/>
     <property name="noindex" output-name="dimval.prop.category.noIndex" type="boolean"/>
     <property name="noFollow" output-name="dimval.prop.category.noFollow" type="boolean"/>
  </text-properties>
</item>


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