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Create a Product Advisor search space using an XML file

The process of creating a Product Advisor search space using an XML requires a sound understanding of the catalog subsystem, the associated database schema, and XML.

The search space consists of additional database tables that contain information extracted from the following standard WebSphere Commerce tables:

• CATENTRY

• CATENTDESC

• CATGPENREL

• ATTRIBUTE

• ATTRVALUE

• LISTPRICE

The following steps are required to create the database tables necessary to support Product Advisor searches.

Procedure

1. Decide on a category for which to enable a Product Advisor search.

2. Create an XML input file based on the Product Advisor XML search space creation file DTD. A sample file using a sample category, 10003, is provided... WCDE_INSTALL\samples\pa\xml

3. Create the search space by scheduling the PACreateSearchSpaceBatchCmd scheduler command from the Administration Console. Note that if the scheduled job is completed it does not indicate success. Look at the log file for error messages.

Related concepts

Product Advisor

Related tasks

Create metaphors using the command utilities

Create a Product Advisor search space for the separate search space using sample utility

Related reference

Attribute definitions in the search space creation XML file

Differences between separate and base search spaces

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