Overview of Global Search Setup
You have many options for setting up the global search, from enabling or disabling it completely to controlling what appears in the autosuggest. For most of the steps, use setup tasks in the Setup and Maintenance work area.
Enable Global Search
A predefined set of business objects, for example files related to purchase order, are available for global search. These objects are grouped into categories. The search gives you results from indexed data that matches your search term.
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Check with your help desk to make sure that objects and categories are already set up.
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Set the Global Search Enabled (FUSION_APPS_SEARCH_ENABLED) profile option to Yes at the Site level.
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Otherwise, the Search field isn't available in the global header for any user.
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After you set the profile option, users must sign out and sign back in to see the global search.
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Define Global Search
Use the following tasks in the Application Extensions functional area to control how the global search works:
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Manage Applications Core Global Search Configurations: Define configurations that capture a collection of settings, and determine which configurations are enabled or used as default. Each configuration applies to the global search on all or specific applications or pages.
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Manage Applications Core Global Search Suggestion Groups: Define suggestion groups, which represent categories of suggestions in the autosuggest.
Retain Recent Items
You can set the Recent Items Retention (FND_PURGE_RECENT_ITEMS) profile option to determine how long to retain recent items for the global search autosuggest. A page that the user opened can appear in the user's autosuggest until the specified number of days passes. Aside from the autosuggest, this profile option also applies to the recent items tracked in Favorites and Recent Items in the global header. The Favorites and Recent Items icon is available in the global header only if your default home page layout is panel or banner.