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SearchAssist Overview
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Build your first App
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Managing Relevance
Introduction
Weights
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Presentable
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Custom Configurations
Personalizing Results
Introduction
Answer Snippets
Introduction
Extractive Model
Generative Model
Enabling Both Models
Simulation and Testing
Debugging
Best Practices and Points to Remember
Troubleshooting Answers
Answer Snippets Support Across Content Sources
Result Ranking
Facets
Business Rules
Introduction
Contextual Rules
NLP Rules
Engagement
Small Talk
Bot Actions
Designing Search Experience
Introduction
Search Interface
Result Templates
Testing
Preview and Test
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Introduction
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Analyzing Search Performance
Overview
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ADMINISTRATION
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OpenAI Integration
Azure OpenAI Integration
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Billing and Usage
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Smart Hibernation
SearchAssist APIs
API Introduction
API List
SearchAssist SDK
HOW TOs
Use Custom Fields to Filter Search Results and Answers
Add Custom Metadata to Ingested Content
Write Painless Scripts
Configure Business Rules for Generative Answers

Preview and Test

SearchAssist features a prebuilt testing functionality that enables you to evaluate the rules and configurations that you set while building your SearchAssist app, without the need for deploying the app after every change made to the application. It helps you assess the results as seen by the end users. You can use it to test the quality of search results or answers provided by the application, test the user experience and make changes, if required.   

To test the application at any time, use the Preview button at the top of the page. 

The preview option displays the search widget as configured in the search experience settings, either as a search bar or as a virtual assistant. 

Type in a sample query to verify the results. When the results are displayed, there are two modes:

  • Preview mode in which the results are displayed as it is on the basis of the configurations so far. 
  • Customize mode in which the results can be customized further. 

Preview Mode 

This is the default mode that shows the results or answers based on data from all existing content sources as they appear to the users in response to the search queries. The result set and their rankings are as per the current configuration of the SearchAssist application. You can also validate the search configuration and experience customization using the Preview mode.

Each answer or search result has the relevant text and the URL or the reference citing the source of truth for the response. When the source of data is a web page or data from a connector, citation is presented as a URL. If the web page or URL has access control enabled, the user would need credentials to login to the page. In case, the response is fetched from files uploaded in SearchAssist, the reference is presented as downloadable files.

Customize Mode

This mode can be used to see the result-level analytics for a given query. It can also be used to modify the ranking of the search results.

For more details on how to customize search results, refer to Result Ranking.

Preview and Test

SearchAssist features a prebuilt testing functionality that enables you to evaluate the rules and configurations that you set while building your SearchAssist app, without the need for deploying the app after every change made to the application. It helps you assess the results as seen by the end users. You can use it to test the quality of search results or answers provided by the application, test the user experience and make changes, if required.   

To test the application at any time, use the Preview button at the top of the page. 

The preview option displays the search widget as configured in the search experience settings, either as a search bar or as a virtual assistant. 

Type in a sample query to verify the results. When the results are displayed, there are two modes:

  • Preview mode in which the results are displayed as it is on the basis of the configurations so far. 
  • Customize mode in which the results can be customized further. 

Preview Mode 

This is the default mode that shows the results or answers based on data from all existing content sources as they appear to the users in response to the search queries. The result set and their rankings are as per the current configuration of the SearchAssist application. You can also validate the search configuration and experience customization using the Preview mode.

Each answer or search result has the relevant text and the URL or the reference citing the source of truth for the response. When the source of data is a web page or data from a connector, citation is presented as a URL. If the web page or URL has access control enabled, the user would need credentials to login to the page. In case, the response is fetched from files uploaded in SearchAssist, the reference is presented as downloadable files.

Customize Mode

This mode can be used to see the result-level analytics for a given query. It can also be used to modify the ranking of the search results.

For more details on how to customize search results, refer to Result Ranking.