Cloning Existing Search Criteria

If you want to set up multiple similar searches, expedite data entry by cloning an existing search. Cloning enables you to start with most of your criteria already in place.

To clone a search definition:

  1. Select PeopleTools, and then Translations, and then Modify Terminology, and then Translations Search Criteria.

    You are prompted to identify a search.

  2. Enter the identifiers for the search definition.

    Use the standard search method to access the Translations Search Criteria page.

  3. Click the Copy Search Criteria button.

    You are prompted for a unique search identifier.

  4. Enter a Text Search Identifier that will be the unique name for the new search.

  5. Click OK.

Sample Search Criteria

Following are examples of possible searches:

  • Replacing base language text.

    If you enter text in the Search Text - Base and Replacement Text sections, the search and replace is only on the base tables. This is a search and replace because the Search Only (No Replace) check box is clear. Because the search and base languages match, you can enter data in the Search Text - Base and Replacement Text sections of the page.

    Notice that all of the check boxes are selected in the Search Objects area. That means that the system searches all of the available search objects for the word Department. When the search results are returned, you can replace each instance of the word Department with the term Cost Center. The text replacement occurs in the base language tables.

  • Searching base language text.

    For example, enter the word Product in the Search Text - Base section only. In this case the system searches for the word Product in the base language tables and shows all occurrences of Product. You might do this as a preliminary effort to locate the word Product, which might have been translated.

  • Searching non-base language text.

    For example, if you enter the word Producto (and select the full word match) in the Search Text - Non Base section, the system searches for all instances of the word Producto in the Spanish language tables. Again, you might do this type of search in order to locate all of occurrences of a translation.

  • Replacing non-base language text.

    For example if you enter the words Producto, PRODUCTO, and producto in the Search Text - Non Base section (and select the full word match for each instance), and enter the words Articulo, ARTICULO, and articulo in the Replacement Text section, the system searches for all instances of the word Producto and gives you the option to change each instance to the word Articulo.

    Using the different cases enables you to catch all occurrences.

  • Searching base language and non-base language text.

    Select the Both option so that the only occurrences that are returned are those where the search criteria matches on both the base table and the non-base table. Let's say, for example, that you have translated the word Product in two different ways in your database: Producto and Articulo. You then realize that, for consistency, you want Product to always be translated to Articulo. This search ignores where Product has already been translated to Articulo and searches only for the instances where Product has been translated to Producto. This search also enables you to change each instance of Producto to Articulo.