Search boost settings
Search boost factors allow you to influence the order of the search results. You can edit search boost factors to increase or decrease the importance of a resource type, field or asset type, in the search ranking.
You can edit the boost settings.
Values
The default boost factor for all resource types and fields is 1, with the exception of Name, which has a default value of 3.
The higher the value, the greater the relevance score. Boost factors can have decimals but have to be bigger than 0.
Boosting object types
The search boost factor of a object type determines whether objects of this type appear higher or lower in the search results if the search string was found in any of its fields. Boosting applies to the following object types:
- Asset
- Community
- Domain
- User
- User group
Search boost factors only determine the relative importance of these five object types. They do not apply to the individual resources of a given object type. For example, you can boost the Community object type, but you cannot boost a specific community or any of the subcommunities, domains or assets in a specific community. Similarly, you can boost the User group object type, but you cannot boost a specific user group or the users in a specific user group.
You can use the facets on the Search page to navigate to specific resources.
Let's assume that Asset has a search boost factor of 1, and Domain has a search boost factor of 3. If you search for a string that appears in any field of an asset and a domain, the domain will appear higher in the search ranking.
Boosting fields
The search boost factor of a field determines its importance for the search results, regardless of the resource type. The available fields are:
- Name
- Comment
- Tag
- <any attribute type>
- <any asset type>
Let's assume that the Name field has a search boost factor of 2, and Tag has a search boost factor of 0,5. If you search for a string that appears in a Name field and a Tag field of different assets, the asset that has your search string in the Name field will be ranked higher than the asset that has the search string in the Tag field.
Boosting asset types
The search boost factor by asset type allows you to assign greater importance to specified asset types in the search results.
Let's assume that the Business Process asset type has a search boost factor of 5, and the Risk asset type has a search boost factor of 1. If you search for a string that appears in any field of a Business Process asset and a Risk asset, the Business Process asset will be shown higher in the search ranking.