After creating a catalog with product/category data and hooking it up to your Storefront site, you might expect the data to start appearing on the front-end. Even after full index rebuilds of the web and master indexes, this was not working as expected for me. The query I was using on the web index was:
commercesearchitemtype_t:"Category"
Which would be expected to return me all categories as defined in the catalog. Likewise the following, should return all products (sellable items):
commercesearchitemtype_t:"SellableItem"
In my case I had changed the environment name from "HabitatAuthoring", and had updated the
defaultEnvironment setting. However there are a number of index related settings which require the updated environment as well. The following patch file if applied should correctly connect the Sitecore indexer up with the correct commerce environment.
<configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/" xmlns:role="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/role/">
<sitecore role:require="Standalone or ContentDelivery or ContentManagement">
<contentSearch>
<indexConfigurations>
<indexUpdateStrategies>
<sellableItemsIntervalAsynchronousStrategyMaster type="Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect.Search.Strategies.SellableItemsIntervalAsynchronousStrategy, Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect">
<Environments hint="list">
<environment patch:instead="environment">MyAuthoring</environment>
</Environments>
</sellableItemsIntervalAsynchronousStrategyMaster>
<sellableItemsIntervalAsynchronousStrategyWeb type="Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect.Search.Strategies.SellableItemsIntervalAsynchronousStrategy, Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect">
<Environments hint="list">
<environment patch:instead="environment">MyAuthoring</environment>
</Environments>
</sellableItemsIntervalAsynchronousStrategyWeb>
<categoriesIntervalAsynchronousStrategyMaster type="Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect.Search.Strategies.CategoriesIntervalAsynchronousStrategy, Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect">
<Environments hint="list">
<environment patch:instead="environment">MyAuthoring</environment>
</Environments>
</categoriesIntervalAsynchronousStrategyMaster>
<categoriesIntervalAsynchronousStrategyWeb type="Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect.Search.Strategies.CategoriesIntervalAsynchronousStrategy, Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect">
<Environments hint="list">
<environment patch:instead="environment">MyAuthoring</environment>
</Environments>
</categoriesIntervalAsynchronousStrategyWeb>
<catalogsIntervalAsynchronousStrategyMaster type="Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect.Search.Strategies.CatalogsIntervalAsynchronousStrategy, Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect">
<Environments hint="list">
<environment patch:instead="environment">MyAuthoring</environment>
</Environments>
</catalogsIntervalAsynchronousStrategyMaster>
<catalogsIntervalAsynchronousStrategyWeb type="Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect.Search.Strategies.CatalogsIntervalAsynchronousStrategy, Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect">
<Environments hint="list">
<environment patch:instead="environment">MyAuthoring</environment>
</Environments>
</catalogsIntervalAsynchronousStrategyWeb>
</indexUpdateStrategies>
</indexConfigurations>
<configuration type="Sitecore.ContentSearch.ContentSearchConfiguration, Sitecore.ContentSearch">
<indexes hint="list:AddIndex">
<index id="sitecore_master_index">
<locations hint="list:AddCrawler">
<crawler type="Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect.Search.Crawlers.SellableItemsCrawler, Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect">
<Environments hint="list">
<environment>MyAuthoring</environment>
</Environments>
</crawler>
<crawler type="Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect.Search.Crawlers.CategoriesCrawler, Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect">
<Environments hint="list">
<environment>MyAuthoring</environment>
</Environments>
</crawler>
<crawler type="Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect.Search.Crawlers.CatalogsCrawler, Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect">
<Environments hint="list">
<environment>MyAuthoring</environment>
</Environments>
</crawler>
</locations>
</index>
<index id="sitecore_web_index">
<locations hint="list:AddCrawler">
<crawler type="Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect.Search.Crawlers.SellableItemsCrawler, Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect">
<Environments hint="list">
<environment>MyAuthoring</environment>
</Environments>
</crawler>
<crawler type="Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect.Search.Crawlers.CategoriesCrawler, Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect">
<Environments hint="list">
<environment>MyAuthoring</environment>
</Environments>
</crawler>
<crawler type="Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect.Search.Crawlers.CatalogsCrawler, Sitecore.Commerce.Engine.Connect">
<Environments hint="list">
<environment>MyAuthoring</environment>
</Environments>
</crawler>
</locations>
</index>
</indexes>
</configuration>
</contentSearch>
</sitecore>
</configuration>