Metadata Search (New) 

Technical data

Function is	New
For Release	Software component ●      Component: SAP NetWeaver ●      Release 7.0
Assignment to Application Component	BW-BEX-ET      End-user technology BW-WHM   Warehouse Management BW-WHM-DOC Documentation
Country Setting	Valid for all countries

Use

It is possible to search BI metadata (such as InfoCubes, InfoObjects, queries, Web templates) using the TREX search engine. This search is integrated into the Metadata Repository, the Data Warehousing Workbench and to some degree into the object editors.

Simple Search

With the simple search, a search for one or all object types is performed in technical names and in text. During the text search, lower and uppercase are ignored and the object will also be found when the case in the text is different from that in the search term.

Advanced Search

With the advanced search, you can also search in attributes. These attributes are specific to every object type. Beyond that, it can be restricted for all object types according to the person who last changed it and according to the time of the change. For example, you can search in all queries that were changed in the last month and that include both the term "overview" in the text and the characteristic customer in the definition.

Further functions include searching in the delivered (A) version, fuzzy search and the option of linking search terms with “AND” and “OR”.

 

Because the advanced search described above offers more extensive options for search in metadata, the function "Generation of Documents for Metadata" in the administration of document management (transaction RSODADMIN) was deleted (see Indexing Documentation for Metadata (Deleted)).

Effects on System Administration

You have to schedule (delta) indexing of metadata as a regular job (transaction RSODADMIN).

Effects on Customizing

●      Installation of TREX search engine

●      Creation of an RFC destination for the TREX search engine

●      Entering the RFC destination into table RSODADMIN_INT

●      Determining relevant object types

●      Initial indexing of metadata