Configure AI engine for AI Search

Before you can use AI Search, you must prepare an item catalog which will be the source of items.

During the configuration of the AI engine for the search, you must go through the following steps:

1. Adding product feed
2. Selecting a product feed
3. Selecting attributes for preview
4. Grouping feed attributes
5. Enabling AI Search

Adding item feed

The first step is selecting the feed from which items will be sourced. You can either select a catalog that contains a feed or use Google Merchant Feed. Make sure, the item feed includes the following attributes:

• title - The name of the item
• category - The category of the item

You can read about requirements for item feed:

• uploaded to a catalog
• pulled from an URL
  Grouping feed attributes is available for this feed type.

If you previously configured a feed which you want to use now, you can omit this step.

1. Go to Settings > AI engine configuration.
2. Click Add feed.
   Result: A pop-up appears.

   

3. Select the product feed you want to use.

   • Catalog

     1. On the pop-up, select the type of catalog:
        • Data catalog
        • Metadata catalog
     2. From the dropdown list, select a catalog.

        

     3. Confirm by clicking Apply.
        Result: An item feed based on the contents of the selected catalog appears on the list in Settings > AI Engine configuration.

   • Google Merchant

     Tip: Include the Last-Modified header to enable detection of whether the product feed import is necessary, this will help you reduce data transmission costs.
     1. Provide the following information:
        • the link to the Google Merchant feed (Feed link),
        • the name of the field (Feed name),
          this name will be visible on the list of item feeds in Synerise in Settings > AI Engine Configuration
        • the frequency of pulling updates from the feed to Synerise (Interval),
        • authentication type (Authentication type),
          • username and password (Basic authentication type)
          • username, password, token type, URL (Bearer authentication type)

        

     2. Proceed to the next step by clicking Next.
     3. If you want to group feed attributes, enable the toggle. Further grouping settings are defined after adding the feed.
        Grouping feed attributes refers to organizing the attributes or fields within an item feed into logical groups. Instead of treating each product variant — such as different sizes or colors — as a separate item in the feed, all variants of a product are combined and grouped into a single item.

        

        WARNING: This action is irreversible after applying.
     4. Confirm by clicking Apply.
        Result: The feed appears on the list in Settings > AI Engine configuration.

Selecting item feed

1. In Settings > AI Engine Configuration, on the list of feeds, click the feed you added according to the Select product feed procedure.
   The configuration form opens. In the Item catalog section, the feed you are configuring is selected automatically and you can proceed to the next part of the configuration.

   

Selecting attributes for preview

Define attributes whose values will appear in the preview of AI Search results when you test the search settings. Without this, the AI search isn’t available.

1. On the Attributes for preview tab, click Show.
2. In the Response attribute column, from the lists select the attributes that contain the data in the Item attributes column.

Example: If the data source stores the item title in the itemTitle attribute, choose itemTitle: on the right, select the itemTitle attribute as the pair for Title from the left column.

Result: Values for the attributes that are chosen in the Response attribute column will be shown for products when previewing them in the Synerise platform.

Grouping feed attributes

Grouping feed attributes organizes attributes or fields within an item feed into logical groups. Instead of treating each product variant — such as different sizes or colors — as a separate item in the feed, all variants of a product are combined and grouped into a single item.

During this grouping process, a “base” product is selected as representative. This is done by first gathering all products that share the same itemGroupId, then grouping them by category, and finally selecting the first product from the largest category group to serve as the base.

When adding such a feed to Synerise, you must enable the grouping of feed attributes. Please note that enabling grouping is irreversible.

1. In the Grouping feed attributes section, click Show.
   Result: Grouping rules are shown. The system automatically prepares grouping rules.

2. Verify the proposed grouping rules.
   When configuring the grouping of feed attributes, you must map source fields to target fields using one of the following aggregators. Each aggregator determines how values from multiple items are combined:

   Aggregator	Description	Example	Aggregated Result
   or	Performs a logical OR on boolean values. Returns true if any value is true, otherwise false.	true, false, false	true
   arrayDistinct	Aggregates unique, non-null values into an array, removing duplicates.	"41", "42", "41", "42"	["41", "42"]
   arrayFlatten	Flattens nested arrays into a single array combining all elements.	["123", "456"], ["456", "789"]	["123", "456", "456", "789"]
   array	Aggregates values into an array, preserving order.	"41", "42"	["41", "42"]
   single	Selects the first non-null value from the list. For the availability attribute, the aggregated result will be a boolean value.	"PROD123", "PROD124"	["PROD123"]

3. To add your own rule, click Add rule.

   1. In the Source filed dropdown, select an item attribute from the feed pulled from Google Merchant.
   2. From the Aggregator dropdown list, select the aggregator based on which attribute values will be combined.
   3. In the Target field dropdown list, select the attribute which will hold the aggregated values. You can create an attribute.

4. Confirm by clicking Apply.

Enabling AI Search for the feed

Enable the AI Search for the selected catalog or Google Merchant Feed.

1. On the Applied search engines tab, click Show.
2. Switch the Search engines toggle on.
3. Confirm by clicking Apply.

After that, proceed to AI Search, and proceed to the configuration

Removing item feed

You can remove item feeds from the list. While removing item feeds, any Synerise objects that rely on the feed as a source of information (such as predictions, recommendations, AI search) will be automatically disabled. Prior to confirming the removal operation, you will be presented with a list of objects that are currently using the feed to be removed. The feed will be removed after 7 days from confirming the action. During this transitional period, the feed and the objects associated with it will remain active. In the case of a feed within a catalog, the contents of the catalog will be deleted, while the catalog itself will be retained.

1. Go to Settings > AI engine configuration.
2. Next to the name of the feed you want to remove, click
3. From the dropdown list, select Delete.
   Result: A pop-up appears with the list of objects that are currently using the feed.
4. To confirm the operation, click Yes, delete feed.