Fredhopper Discovery Platform 23.4.0 Upgrade Notes

Introduction

Fredhopper Discovery Platform 23.4 is compatible with the previous release.

Navigation Index Sharding

Added indexing strategy to index an item in each shard based on an attribute and a value of that attribute

Added new node ItemsWithAttributeValueIndexingStrategy under Sharding node in system.xml which have two values

• attribute-name - this represents the attribute type which to be checked

• attribute-value - this is the value for which the attribute type will be checked

Example:

<node name="Sharding">
  <map>
    <entry key="enabled" value="true"/>
    <entry key="number-of-shards" value="4"/>
    <entry key="shard-conflation-known-values" value="pos208:1000000000"/>
  </map>
  <node name="ItemsWithAttributeValueIndexingStrategy">
    <map>
       <entry key="attribute-name" value="fhpointofsaleids" />
       <entry key="attribute-value" value="pos99999" />
   </map>
  </node>
</node>

If one of the newly added values is empty, the functionality is disabled.

Handle queries with products from shops which are NOT in the Navigation index

Added new shard-conflation-default-value entry under Sharding node in system.xml which to contain the default conflation value which to be used to resolve the shard in case the provided one is not indexed

Example:

<node name="Sharding">
  <map>
     <entry key="enabled" value="true"/>
     <entry key="number-of-shards" value="4"/>
     <entry key="shard-conflation-known-values" value="pos208:1000000000"/>
     <entry key="shard-conflation-default-value" value="pos99999"/>
  </map>
</node>

Migration

Migrating from Fredhopper Discovery Platform 23.3 to 23.4.0 requires no specific migration steps.