Guidelines on Using Configurable Search for Classic Components

Follow these guidelines when you plan to configure search for classic components:

• By default, the delivered (new) classic search page is displayed instead of the old standard component search page without any additional configuration on your part.

• If search is enabled for a component (that is, a valid search record is configured for the component and a search key exists), which search page gets displayed is based on these conditions:

  • If a custom search page (where page type is set to Search Page on the Use tab of the Page Properties dialog box in Application Designer) has been added to the component definition, the custom search page is displayed.

  • If configurable search has been configured for the content reference, then the delivered (new) classic search page is displayed reflecting that configuration. If configurable search has not been configured for the content reference, then the delivered (new) classic search page is displayed in its default state.

• If a component is not search enabled (that is, the component search record has no search keys and the Update/Display check box on the Use tab of the Component Properties dialog box is not selected), the system directly loads the transaction page, which is similar to the functionality prior to PeopleTools 8.60.