Alternatives

Alternatives allow you to directly tailor search terms for enhanced accuracy. In SPARQUE Hub, you can manage your alternative sets. An alternative set maps one term to another, for example, "mouse" and "mice". If a user searches for “mouse”, all products with the word “mice” will also be indexed. However, if a user searches for “mice", products with “mouse” will not be indexed.

Alternative sets are always contained in alternative lists, which act as the foundation for organizing and managing them. Depending on your needs, you can create one or multiple lists. Without a list, it is not possible to create or store redirect sets.

Configuring Alternatives

To configure alternatives, navigate to SPARQUE Hub | Search | Alternatives.

Creating an Alternative List

To create an alternative list:

  1. Click Add alternative list.
  2. Provide the list with a descriptive name.
  3. Click Save alternative list.

Once done, a pipeline with mapping is created in SPARQUE Desk within the dataset “HUB”. In the list overview, you can see the pipeline identifier where the alternative list is created. Copy the URL to use the list in other datasets if needed.

Deleting an Alternative List

To delete an alternative list:

  1. Click Delete.
  2. Click Yes, I’m sure.

After completion, the URL in the pipeline identifier is removed, and the list including the alternative sets is deleted.

Adding an Alternative Set

To add an alternative set:

  1. Click Edit in your alternative list overview.
  2. Click Add new alternative set or edit an existing one.
  3. Enter a new word and click on Add alternative. Repeat this until your alternative set is done.

Deleting an Alternative Set

To delete an alternative set:

  1. Click Edit in your alternative list overview.
  2. Click Edit for the alternative set to be deleted.
  3. Hit the trash icon of each word you want to delete.

Importing Sets

To import sets:

  1. Click Import sets.
  2. Click Download template file.
  3. Change the records for each row.
  4. Save the file locally.
  5. Upload the file.
  6. Click Import.

Dataset in SPARQUE

Each alternative set is stored in SPARQUE Desk. For each set, an object is created. Each object includes a unique identifier with term, alternative, and label as attributes. This object can be used in SPARQUE strategies.

Using Labels

Within each alternative set, you can set a label. This can be useful to manage multiple alternative sets within one list for multiple channels.