Understanding Worklist Search

The PeopleSoft Search Framework enables application developers and implementation teams, to create search artifacts in a consistent, declarative manner and to deploy and maintain search indexes, using one standard interface, regardless of PeopleSoft application.

With Global Search enabled, the Global Search bar displays on the employee homepage. Beside the keyword edit box, the Global Search bar provides a dropdown list for selecting a specific search category against which to run a search. The search category WORKLIST is used to search for keywords within a worklist.

The Worklist Search Config component simplifies the process to create search definitions that can be used to search the application tables for the keyword and get the list of worklist associated with that key word. This component simplifies the query generation and configuration of search related objects. The Worklist Search Config component provides these advantages:

• The query generation process is automated. When the developer selects the worklist name the queries for the application tables associated with the worklist name are generated and the application records are added to the access list.

• It is easier to create the association between query and search definition.

• Simplifies searching the list of application tables to be configured. For example there may be more that one application table associate with the worklist name.

• All the data required to configure the application table as part of the global search is available in one single page.