Understanding Global Search

Global Search provides a way for a user to search across all search indexes or a specific group of search indexes. End users submit a Global Search using the Global Search Bar, which is available in the Portal header throughout the user's session irrespective of the content the user is accessing in the target frame. The Global Search feature allows the user to search and drill down to a specific row of data or transaction from the search results, all without navigating through a menu structure to the component search page and entering search criteria there. In a cluster environment, Global Search can search across indexes from multiple content systems.

Note:

From PeopleTools 8.55, the fluid global search page is used irrespective of the default theme and style the application is using. Global search does not support persistent search.

Global Search is enabled by default based on three conditions:

• At least one search index defined in the Search Context page must be deployed and crawled on the system.

• A user accessing global search must have the required permissions for the deployed search index.

• A user accessing global search must have access to the Fluid Global Search component.

On homepages, the Global Search bar is presented in its expanded form:

This example illustrates the expanded form of the Global Search bar.

On transaction pages and dashboards, global search is presented in its muted form:

This example illustrates the muted form of the Global Search bar.

The Global Search Bar consists of free text search edit box and a Search button.