PeopleSoft Search Framework

PeopleSoft Supplier Contract Management uses PeopleSoft’s Search Framework to assist in advanced, text-based searches for elements in the library and in current authored contracts. You enable search content by creating or updating search indexes. The system creates these indexes by extracting current information and key values from the PeopleSoft database using the Search Definitions loaded in the PeopleSoft Search Framework. The system then searches for library contents using PeopleSoft’s Search Framework advanced searching.

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PeopleSoft delivers predefined metadata (also known as search definitions) for setting up PeopleSoft’s Search Framework searches in PeopleSoft Supplier Contract Management. The search definitions are for clauses, sections, document configurators, and current authored documents. These search definitions contain field mappings, security considerations, and pre-/post-processing information for the indexes.

The system stores the most current .xml version of each source transaction contract for searching purposes and generates the PeopleSoft’s Search Framework indexes directly from the Microsoft Word .xml file and any other attachments to the contracts.

In PeopleSoft Supplier Contract Management, searches using PeopleSoft Search Framework include content type and individual object maintenance searches. You can perform searches for authored documents, clauses, sections, and document configurators. You can also search for ad hoc, purchase order, purchasing contracts, and sourcing events that include text strings in full-text and object-specific searches, such as searching transactional contracts containing a specific item category or searching for specific text in a contract. After completing a search, you can review the results and then, depending on the context, select an object that meets the search attributes to use, update, view, or perform where-used searches.

While you can further configure PeopleSoft Search Framework searches, this topic only describes tasks that you need to perform with predefined PeopleSoft Supplier Contract Management search categories. These tasks define specific fields to store in the search index and to build and test the index.

See the product documentation for PeopleTools: System and Server Administration,