You can add synonyms to a managed attribute value so that users can search for other text strings and still get the same records as a search for the original attribute value name.
When a managed attribute is used as the record search key, the text strings considered by record search for matching are the individual names of the attribute values within the attribute. The managed attribute name is automatically added as a searchable string.
You can add synonyms to an attribute value so that users can search for other text strings and still get the same records as a search for the original attribute value name. Synonyms can be added only to child attribute values, not to root attribute values. They also can only be added to attribute values that do not have assignments on records (that is, they can be added only to an empty data domain that contains just the schema for the source records but does not yet contain the data records).
You can use the Data Ingest Web Service's ingestManagedAttributeValues operation to add synonyms when adding attribute values to the Endeca data domain. For details, see the Oracle Endeca Server Data Loading Guide.