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Procedure documentationUsing the Advanced Options of Enterprise Search

 

The Search Result window provides advanced search options to help you further narrow down your search.

Procedure

  1. Perform a search as described in Using Enterprise Search.

  2. In the upper-left corner of the Search Result window, choose the Layout (Layout) icon.

    A filters pane appears to the left of the search results. The filters, grouped by business object types, and their fields and values, are displayed in a tree view format.

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    In the tree, when a field has more than 10 values, the Search (Search) icon appears beside the field name. You can filter the value list by clicking the icon, typing a text string (all or part of a value) in the text box, and clicking the Search (Search) icon on the right.

    After the value list is filtered, you can see a text box next to the field name that displays the filter text. You can close the text box to restore the original value list.

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  3. In the layout plane, do the following:

    1. Select a specific business object type, for example, A/P invoices.

    2. Specify one or more filters. For example, deselect a field or value to exclude it from the search results, or define a particular date range.

    3. To sort your search results in ascending or descending order, click the up or down arrow beside one or more fields.

      Note Note

      The sorting is based on the Unicode collation algorithm.

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      Note Note

      If you have created search templates, you can also select a template and search by predefined criteria. For more information, see Creating Search Templates and Using Search Templates.

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Result

The application refreshes the right pane to show only the matching results. Each filter is displayed as a tab at the top of the search results; each field for which you have defined a sorting rule is also displayed as a tab under the filters. You can close the tab to disable the filter or sorting rule and restore the original search results.

By hovering your mouse (or any other pointer) over filters, you can review the filtering rules, such as Includes <data>， Excludes <data>, and Range <From... To...>.

Note Note

If you set several filters, the search rule is ‘AND’, which means the result will match all the values maintained in the advanced search options.

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If you have defined more than one sorting rule, the sorting rule tabs are displayed in the order they were defined. You can adjust sorting priorities by dragging the sorting rule tabs and changing their order. Additionally, you can click the up or down arrow on each tab to change the sorting order of the values.

The enterprise search automatically saves previously performed search queries. Each saved query records the search terms only. The application does not save the object types you specified beside the Search box and the advanced search options that you selected in the Search Result window.

To view the search history, click the button on the right side of the Search box. A dropdown list displays a maximum of 10 search queries that you have performed. You can click a query to perform the search again.