1. Implementing Oracle Partner Finder
  2. Overview of Configuring Your Partner Finder

Overview of Configuring Your Partner Finder

After you build your Partner Finder application, you might want to add custom attributes to track various pieces of data that uniquely support your business. This section walks you through how to do just that.

We will look at how to add the Region field to your Partner Finder application, so that users can more easily track where partners are located.

Prerequisites

Before you can add the Region field to your Partner Finder application, you must complete these prerequisite steps:

  1. Create the Region field on the Partner object.

  2. Configure the field for adaptive search.

1. Create the Custom Attribute

Create the Region field on the Partner object in Application Composer.

  1. When defining the custom field, select these check boxes:

    • Enable the Include in Service Payload check box.

      Selecting this check box means that the field will be enabled for REST services. The custom field must be available in Oracle's REST APIs before you can add this custom field to your Partner Finder application in VBCS.

    • Enable the Searchable check box.

      This will let users search and filter on partners using a region value in their Partner Finder.

  2. After you create the custom field, record the internal field name that displays in Application Composer. You will use the internal field name in VBCS when adding the custom field to your Partner Finder application.

    In this example, the internal field name is Region_c. This means that these names are used by the following REST services:

    1. Partners REST Service: PartnerProfilePEO_Region_c

    2. Adaptive Search REST Service: Region_c

2. Configure Adaptive Search

This step is required if you want users to search and filter on partners using a region value in their Partner Finder.

Enable the Region field for adaptive search.

For more information, see "Configure Search Attributes" in the Enable, Configure, and Use Adaptive Search documentation.

Next Steps

After you create the custom field and enable it for adaptive search, you can then proceed to add the field to your Partner Finder application. The rest of this section walks you through adding your custom field to these pages:

  • Partner Keyword Search

  • Partner Card in Search Results

  • Partner Finder Filter

  • Partner Details

  • Partner Inquiry