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Chronological engineering referencesCoveo Multi-Site & Multi-Brand Architecture: Shared Catalogs, Regional Scoping, and Consolidated Governance
Architecting enterprise multi-site and multi-brand search in Coveo: shared vs. isolated sources, searchHub routing, constant query (cq) partitioning, and brand-…
Coveo High Availability, Multi-Region Topology, and Enterprise Disaster Recovery
Engineering for 99.99% enterprise SLA: Cloudflare Anycast edge routing, multi-AZ sharded index clusters, cross-region replication, data sovereignty compliance (…
Endeca Search : How to allow users to search within previous search results(Search Within)?
The search within function enables end users to find specific information within an previous search results. Where search within can be used Users prefer or exp…
Does Endeca Experience Manager Results List support multiple Boost and Bury conditions?
Endeca Results List cartridge displays search and navigation results to site users. You can configure it to boost or bury selected records using experience mana…
Will Endeca experience manager stop working by end of 2020?
Endeca Experience manager is powerful merchandiser tool for business provided by oracle commerce to make the site layout/pages updated very quickly with no deve…
Whats New in Oracle Endeca Commerce 11.3?
Oracle-Commerce Workbench Experience Manager configuration (Template/Cartridges) moved from XML to JSON to support REST service based update Removed flash based…
Endeca 11.2 Preview : Missing deployment settings
Behaviour :- Following Exception/Error comes in Endeca tools and framework IFCR log during preview page in 11.2 Endeca Experience manager using preview function…
Endeca 11.x : There was a problem with the zip file given
Behaviour :- Following Exception/Error comes during baseline or promoting content from Experience Manager. Error shows that " there was a problem with Zip File …
Endeca 11.x : Property 'priority' must be a positive integer
Behaviour :- Following Exception/Error comes during Endeca experience manager content migration between environments or importing contents from zip file. SEVERE…
Can Endeca Partial Indexing be performed after inventory or direct SQL update?
Behaviour As per default behavior of ATG Endeca integration, Endeca Partial indexing does not update index with inventory update. ATG driven partial index looks…
Oracle Endeca ITL and Expereince Manager High Availability Architecture
What are High Availability and Failover High availability as the ability for the system to continue functioning after the failure of one or more of the servers.…
Endeca Basics : Interview Questions and Answers- Part1
Endeca Basics - Interview Questions - Part-1 1. What is Endeca and why do you use Endeca instead of other search products? 2. What are dimensions and properties…
Endeca 11.x : Unable to retrieve site definition for site id
Behavior :- Following Exception/Error comes during accessing the Endeca pages SEVERE: Unable to retrieve site definition for site id: /storeSiteUS com.endeca.st…
How to import specific set of rules/content to Endeca Experience manager?
Oracle Endeca 11.1 onward support to import specific content item to Endeca Experience manager via calling ECR repository. This features enable to import conten…
What are the different available deployment templates in Endeca?
Oracle Provides three different types of deployment template to create Endeca Applications. CAS-Forge based deployment template - This was being used until vers…
Oracle Endeca 11.x : How to Migrate Endeca Application between environment?
As part of the development/debugging phase, Endeca Application needs to be migrated from QA to UAT or Production to Staging. Following items need to be migrated…
Oracle Endeca 10.x : EndecaHow to prevent 404 error after baseline update due to workbench password change?
Behaviour :- Web application starts showing 404-page error after baseline update once admin password changed from change password window using Endeca workbench …
Endeca 11.2 : Workbench login credentials are not found or found invalid credential type for key
Behaviour :- Following Exception/Error comes during Endeca Application initialize services or baseline/partial indexing process. [04.20.16 22:46:52] INFO: Provi…
Endeca 11.2 : Unauthorized (401): Unauthorized access to workbench
Behaviour :- Following Exception/Error comes during Endeca Application initialize services or baseline/partial indexing process. < [04.20.16 22:55:48] SEVERE…
How to retain selected dimension under multi select dimension on front-end?
Behaviour As per default behavior of Endeca, Selected dimension does not return as part of Endeca query guided navigation response whenever a multi-select dimen…
How to enable SEO urls in ATG/Endeca Integration?
Endeca provides out of the box configuration for generating SEO specific URL. Below configuration needs to be set properly to enable ATG/Endeca SEO integration.…
How to Remove a deployed Endeca application?
Endeca Application is created using deployment template available under ToolsandFramework. Do not delete the application directory before removing to Endeca App…
How to Update EAC after updating Endeca Application Configuration?
Endeca Application Configuration is set using AppConfig.xml and available under <<Endeca_App>>/config/script. AppConfig.xml is devided into multiple…
Endeca Application : How to remove host entry from AppConfig files and EAC?
AppConfig.xml import set of XML files related to host configuration, process definition etc. LiveDgraphCluster.xml contains host and port entry related to multi…
Endeca SEO : How to enable Url Canonicalization?
Endeca Url configuration is managed in endeca-seo-url-config.xml. SeoUrlFormatter class generates the SEO URL for refinements or landing pages. What is Canonica…
Endeca Performance Tuning : Slow Query response time
Endeca maintains internal Dgraph cache at Dgraph level. Endeca Dgraph cache gets flushed during baseline and partial update process. Behaviour Most of the clien…
Endeca Basics : How to troubleshoot partial update is working as expected or not?
Endeca Partial indexing process uses only Forge process to generate XML file and Dgidx process gets skipped. The MDEX Engine processes partial updates concurren…
Endeca Basics : How to Debug Endeca Pipeline Components transformation is working as expected?
A pipeline is composed of a collection of components. Each component performs a specific function during the transformation of source data into Endeca records. …
Oracle Endeca : Change Default indexing order in Endeca Dgraph during baseline update
Behaviour : - Records are getting indexed in Endeca and sort based on insertion order(FIFO) during baseline update from any source e.g record store, JDBC query …
Forge Error : The requested file copy cannot be completed since it requires writing multiple files to the same location.
Behaviour :- Following Errors comes during baseline process. CRS.fetch_config_to_input_for_forge_Forge.log Mar 22, 2016 12:16:35 PM com.endeca.esf.delegate.task…
SocketTimeoutException: Time out error during Read Records From CAS RecordStore
Behaviour :- Following errors comes during baseline update <SEVERE: Caught an exception while invoking method 'run' on object 'BaselineUpdate'. Releasing loc…
Endeca Baseline Error : SEVERE: Unable to update Assembler
Behaviour:- Following Errors comes during baseline process SEVERE: Unable to update Assembler at URL: http://hostname:10280/dyn/admin/assemblerAdmin/admin org.a…
Create new Crawler in Endeca 11.x application : Could not find the crawl Error
Behaviour :- Sometimes, "Could not find the crawl" or "crawler has been removed/corrupted" error comes during baseline run. Solution:- Run below command to see …
Oracle Endeca Commerce Architectural(XM and Assembler) Comparison Over Multiple Versions
The Endeca Assembler and Experience Manager work together to provide the dynamic experience. Experience Manager - Provides an interface to manage content config…
Spelling Auto Correction : how to disable Auto Correction for certain search term?
Spelling auto-correction for record search automatically computes alternate spellings for user query terms that are misspelled. Spelling correction is usually e…
Endeca SEO : Display special characters in Assembler SEO URL
In Endeca SEO Implementation, endeca-seo-config-url.xml is responsible to generate SEO URL. Behaviour:- When using the endeca-seo-config-url.xml file to impleme…
Endeca Assembler : Does Breadcrumb provide URL for individual refinement?
Breadcrumbs represents the active navigation state or current selection of navigation state. This may contains refinement or search breadcrumb. Behaviour :- End…
Endeca XM : Cartridge template changes does not reflect in previously created experience manager pages
Cartridge templates are basic building blocks of Endeca experience manager pages. The developer creates/update the cartridges as per business need and deploy to…
Endeca Workbench 11.x: Change the Oracle Commerce Endeca Workbench Admin Password
Find out the steps below to change the password 1. Review the {endeca_app}/config/script/WorkbenchConfig.xml file. Herein there is a property and value of "cred…
Endeca Experience Manager 11.1 : Content Editor panel is blank after dragging and dropping cartridges
Behaviour :- When adding new links, or rearranging categories in Endeca Experience Manager's content editor panel, occasionally the entire node hierarchy disapp…
Oracle Endeca - How to create a dimension based on more than one attributes?
In Endeca, A Dimension can be created using multiple properties. Example: More Ways to Shop dimension should contain 3 different properties sale, online, new so…
Endeca Basics : does Stemming change relevance ranking score?
Stemming feature allows expanding the search results from singular to plural and vice versa. Suppose, search term is "shoe", this gives the result for "shoe" an…
Endeca Basics : How to Add/Delete word from stemming dictionary??
Oracle Endeca provides a dictionary for stemming for all languages. This dictionary is part of MDEX engine installation. Dictionary can be found under \MDEX\<…
Endeca Basics : How to Disable Endeca Rule Manager trigger for Stemming?
Stemming enables keyword search results to provide results for both singular and plural words. Stemming and spelling correction both triggers Endeca Rules in Ex…
Endeca Basics : What is Stemming?
The Stemming feature expands search results to include root words and variants of root words.Stemming enables words with a common root (such as the singular and…
ATG Endeca Integration : How to Troubleshoot Endeca Baseline update When Expected Data is Not Available in Endeca indices?
Business creates data and push into Endeca for Indexing. Some type of data that was added through ATG and Endeca baseline update ran successfully without any er…
Oracle Endeca : Installation Order
As per my experience, Endeca installation should be in the following order, because some of the installers request info about the other installations that if yo…
Endeca 11.x - EacCommunicationException Error After Running Initialize Services
The following error is being thrown for any new application trying to run initialize_services on: [01.22.16 16:33:09] INFO: Checking definition from AppConfig.x…
Oracle Endeca (3.x,11.x) - how to increase Java heap size of Tools and Framework?
Sometimes workbench become unresponsive and content promotion start failing and start giving following types of exceptions:- 1. 27.02.2016 05:24:20.123 *WARN* […
Oracle Endeca : Return All Levels of a Hierarchical Dimension With a Single Record Search Query
In application, the catalog tree are stored in a hierarchical tree structure in Endeca (a hierarchical dimension). Only the top level dimension values are retur…
Oracle Endeca Dgraph : How to verify that Endeca MDEX Engine is running?
Endeca uses MDEX engine(dgraph) to store indices. Application logic makes a query to Endeca MDEX engine to get the results back. If there are multiple instances…
Experience Manager Rules : Rule Trigger while record search
Business can create rules in experience manager based on search term. The following scenario would be considered for rule triggering based on location search te…
Endeca Script : How To Run Dgidx from Command Prompt??
Dgidx is the indexing program that reads the tagged records that were prepared by Forge or CAS and creates the proprietary indexes for the MDEX Engine. Find out…
Oracle Endeca 11.x : How to Setup Precedence Rules?
A Precedence Rule provides a way to hide the display of dimensions until someone click a dimension or a particular navigation state. Precedence rules are define…
Oracle Endeca - how to use snippeting in Record Searches??
Definition :- The snippeting feature (also referred to as keyword in context or KWIC) provides the ability to return an extract from a record—called a snippet—t…
Oracle Endeca - Record Boost and Bury
Record boost and bury is a mechanism by which the ranking of certain specific records is made much higher or lower than other records. 1. Record boost is a mech…
Oracle Endeca : what is disabled refinements and how to use?
Definition Disabled refinements represent those refinements that do not have any results after end use select refine results using guided navigation. In many fr…
Oracle Endeca x.x - Search query processing order in MDEX
This section summarizes how the MDEX Engine processes record search queries. The process outlined here assumes that other features (such as spelling correction …
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 sp…
Endeca 11.2 - Publish Deployment Failed : File Store
Behavior:- Find out solution below if you find any errors in Oracle Endeca Tools and Framework 11.2 Error : Deployment failed : File Store Detailed Status : [ E…
Oracle Endeca : What is the Assembler?
The Endeca Assembler is an Oracle Commerce component that performs the following essential roles in any Oracle Commerce application: It acts as the runtime comp…
Endeca Basics : What is Implicit Dimension?
Implicit dimension values are values that occur on all remaining records of the result set, so that clicking on dimensions would not narrow the result any furth…
Endeca Basics : How to Enable Implicit Dimension?
Implicit dimension values are values those can not be refined further to set smaller sets of records. Example :- Suppose, there are 3 types of record. Product, …
Endeca 11.x.x : Add/Rename site name/id in Experience manager
Oracle Endeca provides multi-site features 11.1 onwards in Experience manager. Sometimes Site display name needs to change as per client and site id as well. Fi…
How Experience manager contents are Managed over multiple version and integrated with Assembler API?
Business users use Endeca experience manager to create multiple pages using page templates, cartridges, page slot and content slots. Once contents get previewed…
Endeca Load Balancing Best Practices
Load balancers are the preferred solution for providing scalability and fail-over for Dgraph queries An Endeca-based application based on the availability of th…
Endeca Experience Manager Rich Text Editor options
Endeca Provides RichTextEditor to format html content and provide preview functionality to view cartridge content. This preview does not provide flexibility to …
Prevent to display unwanted endeca query parameters in URL
Most of the time record filters, range filters are used as part of creating navigation request and fire a query to Endeca using cartridge handler. Endeca return…
How to Prevent to display unnecessary Endeca query parameters in URL?
Most of the time record filters, range filters are used as part of creating navigation request and fire a query to Endeca using cartridge handler. Endeca return…
Oracle Endeca 11.1 : Site specific keyword redirects
Oracle Endeca provides a keyword redirects functionality. keyword redirects are used to redirect a user's search to a Web page . Oracle Endeca 11.1 does not pro…
Endeca all versions : Special character in search term
Endeca uses only alphanumeric characters to be searchable by default as part of Endeca search query. Behavior: If any search term contains any special character…
Oracle Endeca 11.1 : Migrate State file to Dimension Value ID Mapping
Migrate State file to Dimension Value ID Mapping From Forge-Based to CAS-Based Applications : - CAS based MDEX writable output concept is introduced from 11.1 o…
Dynamic Ranking Not Applied in Guided Navigation in 11.1
Behavior - Selecting sorting option as frequency(Dynamic ranking) under refinement menu not sorting refinement as intended. Solutions :- There are two options a…
Oracle Endeca Dgraph Performance Tuning
Find out steps below to resolve Endeca Dgraph Performance issue using Dgraph Flags or minimal configuration. Thread Count By Default, Endeca configuration set d…
Endeca Query Performance Tuning for optimal performance
Find out the solutions below to resolve the Endeca Query performance issues . Following latest patches needs to be applied: - Patch 17342677 : It reduces the nu…