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You use this function to partition a single product repository into a number of custom subset repositories without duplicating product records. You can use them as an alternative to masks.

You can, for example, create the following named searches for specific target groups:

  • Employee Catalog

    The searchable catalog items may be restricted to items of the category Office material.

  • Manager Catalog

    The searchable catalog items may be unrestricted.

Prerequisites

You have been assigned the role Catalog Manager or Administrator.

For more information about named searches, see SAP Solution Manager under   <project name>   Scenarios   SAP SRM <release>   Catalog Content Management   Business Processes   Managing Product Content in the SRM-MDM Catalog   Define Masks and Named Searches  

Activities

To define a named search in the MDM Data Manager, you run a search either by selecting search parameters or by using the free-form search and save the current search selection as a named search.

For more information about defining a search in the MDM Data Manager, see   http://service.sap.com/installmdm  .

Note Note

Named searches are dynamic objects. When you import catalog items and the import replaces existing destination records with incoming source records, you do not need to update any named searches. The named search retrieves up-to-date product data.

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