The February release for Spotler Activate Search introduces a new search analysis and debugging workspace, improvements to analytics accuracy, enhanced filtering capabilities, and updates to security and reliability, along with bug fixes that improve overall performance and stability.
What is included in the February release of Spotler Activate Search?
This release focuses on improving search insight, data accuracy, filtering flexibility, and system reliability within Spotler Activate Search.
Key updates include the introduction of a dedicated Search Results and Advanced Debug environment, improved analytics tracking, and enhanced filtering logic.
On this page, the following topics are covered:
- Enhanced search analysis and debugging
- Improvements
- Bug fixes
- Security and reliability improvements
- Result
Enhanced search analysis and debugging
A new Search Results and Advanced Debug page has been introduced in Spotler Activate Search, providing a dedicated environment for analyzing and optimizing search behavior.
This new workspace brings search analysis, debugging, and validation together in one place, making it easier to understand how search queries behave and how results are constructed. By working in a neutral environment within the active tenant context, users can test and evaluate search behavior without relying on a live storefront.
The introduction of this feature reduces dependency on frontend implementations and enables faster iteration when improving search configurations. Users gain clearer insight into how product data, filters, and queries interact, helping them make more informed adjustments.
In addition, the workspace provides deeper visibility into search results by exposing underlying data and scoring logic. This makes it easier to understand why specific products appear, reproduce issues, and validate changes in a controlled and consistent way.
Improvements
Analytics and data accuracy
Analytics tracking in Spotler Activate Search has been aligned with industry standards to ensure accurate and reliable event data collection.
Updates to the Insights API and JavaScript SDK introduce persistent client and session identifiers, improved session lifecycle management, and better compatibility with analytics tools.
Additional cookies have been introduced to support functional analytics, enabling better monitoring and improvement of search performance.
Flexible and accurate filtering
Filtering logic has been improved across APIs and templates to provide more accurate and flexible search results.
Complex filter combinations now function correctly, numeric filter values are fully supported, and issues with facet counts and filter selection fields have been resolved.
Nested OR filtering is now supported, enabling more advanced filtering configurations.
Bug fixes
- Fixed issues with field filtering logic for specific text patterns
- Resolved problems with usage data synchronization to ensure complete and up-to-date exports
- Addressed template and dashboard filter issues to ensure correct functionality
- Corrected default result limits in templates to ensure immediate visibility of search results after setup
Security and reliability improvements
Security and reliability improvements have been implemented to strengthen system stability, improve data handling, and ensure a more resilient search experience.
Result
This release introduces a dedicated debugging workspace, improves analytics accuracy, and enhances filtering capabilities.
Users gain better insight into search behavior, more reliable data, improved filtering control, and a more stable and secure system within Spotler Activate Search.