What settings are handled by the Magento dashboard vs Algolia dashboard?

Each type of data -- products, categories, pages, query suggestions and additional sections -- controls a different set of settings when enabled for indexing.

Products

• searchableAttributes
• customRanking
• unretrievableAttributes
• attributesForFaceting
• maxValuesPerFacet
• removeWordsIfNoResults
• hitsPerPage

Categories

• searchableAttributes
• customRanking
• unretrievableAttributes

Pages

• searchableAttributes: unordered(slug), unordered(name), unordered(content)
• attributesToSnippet: content:7

Query Suggestions

• searchableAttributes: unordered(query)
• customRanking: desc(popularity), desc(number_of_results)
• typoTolerance: false
• attributesToRetrieve: query
• removeWordsIfNoResults: lastWords

Additional Sections

• searchableAttributes: unordered(value)

Any settings that are not in this list can be managed through the Algolia dashboard. If you’re a developer, it’s also possible to push settings programmatically by hooking into the algolia_products_index_before_set_settings event.

WARNING: Settings applied in the Algolia dashboard will overwrite any settings you do in Magento until a full reindex is performed through Magento. This will reset all the index settings to the settings set in the Magento Dashboard.