Google Commerce Search Deployment Guide - Manual (Page 14)

Chapter 3 The GCS Control Panel
This chapter doesn’t comprehensively document all the features in the control panel, rather it
highlights some best practices and specific use cases relative to the control panel. For complete
information, see:
● GCS Configuration pages: http://code.google.com/apis/commercesearch/docs/
gcsconfiguration.html
● Context-sensitive help within the control panel
Admin accounts
There can be only one owner of a GCS instance associated with a single Google account. But
there can be many administrators. The owner can delegate access to other users by using the
Admin Accounts tab. Take note that before you can add a user as an admin, their email must
be associated with a Google account at
https://www.google.com/accounts/ .
If you need to change the owner of the GCS instance, you need to file a ticket with Google
Enterprise Support at
http://www.google.com/enterprise/portal/ .
Audit logs
While there is no way to rollback changes to GCS settings, you can get a list of changes
that have been made by GCS administrators in the Audit Log tab. There are currently no
notifications sent when changes are made, but this functionality could be implemented using the
Admin API to poll for changes on a regular basis.
Automating admin tasks
While most users will administer GCS by using the user interface of the control panel, in some
cases it may be easier either to automate tasks using the admin API, or to use the import/export
functionality to import machine- or manually-generated XML files.
XML import/export
For one-off bulk uploads, or tasks that are fairly infrequent, the XML-import feature is very easy
to use. Most of the features in the control panel support uploading and downloading of their
configurations. Currently all of these features support exporting and importing their settings
individually through the control panel:
● Synonyms
● Autocompletions
● Promotions
● Ranking Rules
● Facet Rules
● Redirect Rules
● Attributes (Display Names)
Alternatively you can also download the entire configuration of your search engine through the
Advanced > Configuration tab.
If you have hundreds of synonyms, or need to manage many different promotions or rules, you
can create an XML file and upload them all at once, rather than manually entering the data in
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