Creating a Search App

Site Search > Navigation Menu > Search App > Create
or
Site Search > Navigation Menu > Search App > Settings > +

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A SearchStax Site Search solution Search App summarizes popular queries and critical metrics such as click-through rate, average click position, mean reciprocal rank, and frequency of no-results searches.

Create a Search App

1. From the Site Search Dashboard, go to the Navigation Menu. Click the Create button under Search App. Alternatively, you may begin on the Apps Summary page and click the (+) icon.
2. This opens a modal dialog box for configuring the new App.
   • App Name: The name must be at least six alphanumeric characters. Underbar (_) is allowed, but other special characters are not.
   • Region: Select a region near your location.
   • Platform: The options are Sitecore, Drupal, and Custom.
   • Version: The final selection list offers Sitecore and Drupal versions. For a Custom App, no version is offered.
3. Click the Create button to initiate the App. This step needs a few minutes to complete.

Note that a new Search App is simply an empty database. To be useful, it must record user actions from your company website over some significant period of time (days, weeks). There is about a one-hour delay before the first recorded data appears in Site Search.