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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Publish an AI Search search profile

Publish a search profile to make pending changes to its settings take effect in linked search applications.

Before you begin

Role required: ais_admin

About this task

To make a search profile's settings active in search queries, you must publish it. Publishing propagates the following settings to search application configurations that reference the search profile.

  • The set of synonym and stop word dictionaries linked to the search profile
  • Settings, blocked terms, and derived auto-correction terms for typo handling dictionaries linked to the search profile
  • Result improvement rules and actions defined in the search profile

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > AI Search > Search Experience > Search Profiles.

    Note: Search profiles with the New state display an alert triangle icon

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. An informational message notifies you to publish these search profiles.

  1. Open the search profile that you want to publish.

  2. Select Publish.

Result

The search profile appears in the AI Search Search Profiles list with State set to Published.

Parent Topic:Search profiles in AI Search