Search tagging is an enrichment, used to add tags to incoming items. This way items can for example be assigned a certain product name based on a Smart Filter match or a company name based on a full text search result.
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Once saved, all new items passing through this workflow will be tagged with the given keyword(s). Add the "Search Tagging and Alerting" step to additional workflows if you require.
Caveats
Asynchronous Processing
Search tagging, especially when used with Smart Filters, can be a resource-intensive process. For that reason, this step is run asynchronously in the Pipeline. As a result items that are searchable and displayed may not yet have their search tags applied. See the Filtering step for details on this behavior.
Historical Tagging
From the moment a search tagging has been set up it applies to all new items. All items that are already in the index are not processed at that time. Please contact Squirro Support if you need to tag existing items.
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