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Product Version

SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search

Release: 7.2

Support Package: Stack 03

Area

BC-EIM-ESH

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The following features are available for developers:

  • DPS Template Service (Enhanced)

    The DPS template service supports automatic import of complete search models to SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search. As of this release, the service was enhanced with the following features:

    • Cross-model attributes

    • Attribute groups

    • Weighting of attributes to define relevance

    On SAP Community Network at http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-search, you can find more information and documentation for developers, which describes the new features of the data provider services (DPS) in SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search.

  • XSD-Based DPS Modelling – Using the Modeler to Generate Models for Non-ABAP Data Sources (New)

    As of release 7.2, you can connect non-ABAP data sources to SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search using the data provider interfaces. To import model information (templates), you must always implement the DPS template service of the data provider first.

    As of this release, SAP provides an additional method that uses the SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search modeler directly.

    You should use this method if data providers cannot deliver the complete model or the effort for implementing a template service appears to be greater than the benefit of doing this.

    The prerequisite for using this new type of modelling is the existence of model nodes (search nodes) in an XML schema. You can use an XML schema file as the basis for the entire modelling process. The model created in the modeler can subsequently be used with the DPS data services.

    For more information about the XML schema elements that the file exported from the source system must support, see the developer documentation.

    For more information, see: Performing XSD-Based Modelling of DPS Search Models

  • Using Software Components to Transport Customer Developments to Other Systems (New)

    As of this release, it is possible to use the Export and Import functions in the modeler to transport model information in your own software components to other systems.

    For more information, see: Transporting Software Components and Their Contents

  • OpenSearch-Compatible Search Interface (Enhanced)

    The OpenSearch-compatible search interface in SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search supports the following new functions:

    • Suggestions

      Implementation of the OpenSearch extension for suggestions

    • Relevancy

      Implementation of the OpenSearch extension for specifying a score for a search hit

    • Extended Subset Queries

      SAP-specific extension for grouping search queries to refine the current search results (grouping of faceted search queries)

    • Content Snippets

      SAP-specific extension for determining text extracts

    • Cross-model attributes

      SAP-specific extensions for determining cross-connector query attributes at the category level

    On SAP Community Network at http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/nw-search, you can find more information and documentation for developers, which describes the new features of the OpenSearch services in SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search.