Searching for Business Objects and Apps

Using the search bar () in the shell header, end users can find business objects (such as materials or sales orders) and tiles (such as Leave Request or Current Accounts Balance).

Note

To locate business objects using the search bar, Enterprise Search must be integrated and set up in your environment; otherwise, the search will return apps that are located only in your home page and the Catalog.

Tip

You can also use the app finder in the Me Area to find all your SAP Fiori, SAP GUI, and Web Dynpro ABAP apps in one place, and then add them to your home page.

For more information, see App Finder and Adding Apps to Your Launchpad

Operators (Business Objects Search only)

Symbol	Example	Description
None	`shares warrants`	Finds results that contain both the word “shares” and the word “warrants”.
`OR`	`shares OR warrants`	Finds results that contain either the word “shares” or the word “warrants”.
`-`	`shares -warrants`	Finds results that contain the word “shares” but not the word “warrants”.
`*`	`warr*`	Finds results containing words that start with “warr”, for example “warrants”, “warranty”, and “warranted”.
`""`	`"with best regards"`	Finds results that contain the exact phrase “with best regards”.

Search Tips

If you can't find the expected results try again using *, for example *12345 or *john*

The search is case-insensitive.

The result list is sorted by relevance, which is calculated based on the following factors:

Weights of attributes, for example, a hit in the surname is ranked higher than a hit in the first name.
Number of hits within an object (proportional to the text length and frequency of other words).