1. Using Product Master Data Management
  2. Search Region

Search Region

You can enter all search queries in the Search text box. This text box combines user entered search data as a query. When you start typing in the Search text box, the search provides suggestions based on the data entered. Clicking on a suggestion performs the search.

Autocomplete and Suggestions

Autocomplete provides type-ahead suggestions similar to autosuggest. Autocomplete reduces the number of clicks. The suggestions are presented as you type within the Search text box. By default, a set of attributes for each object is configured for autocomplete and keyword search. For example, in item search, the item number and item description attributes are configured for autocomplete and keyword search to support cases where you search for an item number or search for an item using terms within the item description.

Filter Chips

You can refine the search by selecting filters and values based on the data in the search results. The first five to seven filter chips are displayed beneath the Search text box. The other filter chips are available by clicking on the Filters action. These are displayed based on the display order in the view.

To apply a filter chip, click on it to edit the filter chip. Click on the chip the second time to display a set of values for filter. It shows a list of values that you can select. Search and select a value and click anywhere on the page. The filter chip is applied on the search results and the table refreshes to display the result based on the applied chip.
Note: The counts show how often a specific value occurs. The values are provided through aggregation of the data in the database for the attribute.

The filter chip may allow you to select another value, or in some cases you can select one or more values. For example, if you want to search for items for manufacturers Aero Tech and Tech Space, you can select both and the search results are filtered.

The last chip beneath the Search text box is the Filters action. Clicking this displays the Filters drawer, where you can select values for the filter chip. You can apply the search criteria to multiple filters in the drawer and click See Results to run the search.

To remove the applied filters, click Clear.

Keyword Search

When the index is created, each attribute is assigned an analyzer, which is used to create searchable content for the attributes. Part of this process is tokenizing the characters in the attributes. Tokens are searchable terms that are part of the index record for the object. The tokenizer will create a set of tokens by reviewing the characters and applying rules to separate the characters into tokens. For example, if the description contains: ‘CAP, CERAMIC, SMD, 0402, 0.22UF, Y5V, 10V, +80/-20%’, the resulting tokens would be ‘CAP’, ‘CERAMIC’, ‘SMD’, ‘O402’, ‘0.22UF’, ‘Y5V’, ‘10V’, ‘+80’ and ‘-20’. Each token is searchable using keyword search.

By default, keyword search is enabled for primary attributes of the objects. For example, for items, keyword search is enabled for item number and item description.

All keyword searches use starts with in the searches.

Special Characters in Search Query

You can extend the search using the following special characters in the Search box:

  • Double Quotes: If two or more words exist in a description, you can use double quotes to find occurrences of the words together in a search. For example, if the item description is 252525 Micro Farads ab 250 Volt 2.5.2 %, you can search for “Micro Farads” to find the items with these two terms together in the description.
  • List of Items: You can search for multiple numbers for an object by entering them with spaces. For example, if you’re searching for three items AS1, AS16903, or AS16901, enter the complete item number separated by spaces. Each of these items are displayed in the search results. You will also find additional items that start with these strings.
  • Item Numbers with Hyphen or Underscore: To search item numbers that contain hyphens such as 06-CMM-SL, enter “06-CMM” with double quotes in the Search box. You can also find ITEM_GSE_123 by entering “ITEM_GSE”.
  • Wildcards: Use wildcard queries to search for terms that match a wild card pattern:
    • *: Returns matches based on the characters entered plus any matches with additional characters
    • ?: Matches a single characterReturns exact match based on characters enters plus matches contain a single additional character
  • Separators: Special characters such as comma, colon, space, slash, back slash, hyphen, pipe, number sign, underscore, or dash are used in attribute values that have multiple terms. For example, a description such as ‘DUCT,COVER,2.0"X 6FT,PANDUIT,WHITE’ contains multiple separators. The ingest process uses the separators to break the value into searchable tokens.