SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise InfoView User's Guide

You can search within the content of objects by selecting the Search content option in InfoView.

You can search within a mixed-language object by entering a search input which consists of multiple languages. The following are several examples of searches with more than one language. Results will be produced if the words in both languages are found in a document.

You can search using techniques similar to those used in other search engines.

The system suggests up to five alternate spelling suggestions if a search input is misspelled or yields no results. The suggestion is made by substituting words in the original input with words from the system that are similar in spelling to the original one. For example, if you search for “Euroe sales trent”, the system recognizes the misspelled words and provides a suggestion of “Europe sales trend”.

When a search is executed, the system automatically generates suggested new documents based on your search input. When you execute your search, you may realize that none of the result documents contain the information you wanted to find, or that there were no results. In this case, suggested documents generated by the system may answer your questions instead.

Suggested documents are created by interpreting the search input and comparing it to the structure of the universes and data in existing documents. For example, if you search for “Mexico sales 2006”, Content Search may see that “sales” is a measure in a universe that houses all sales data for your company. It may also see that in another document, the field “country” was equal to “Mexico”, and use this to filter your data accordingly. It may also see that “2006” is a predefined filter. It will then create a document using the data from the universe, and the filters it identified. You can then view and edit the new document.

You can click on the link Run Query to view this generated document and save it if desired. Clicking on Edit Query will open the document for editing, so that you can make further refine the query as needed.

When the text you are searching for matches the words in an object’s title or description, the matched words will be highlighted in yellow.

Some searches may return too many results to look at all of them easily. Content Search uses information in and about the results to classify them into groups, or facets. The various facets that search results can be classified by include document type, public category, data in reports, and aspects of the report content. You can select a group, and see the search results that are part of that group.

For example, you may search for “2006 sales by employee”. The public category facet could include “HR Reports”, “Legal Documents” and “Sales reports”, because each of these categories has objects assigned to it that appear in your search results. You were looking for a sales report, so you click on “Sales report” to see only search results assigned to that category.

Facets that are based on report content use fields or variables that exist in many documents to create the facets. For example, the variable “Product” might be used in many sale reports, and Content Search creates a facet for it. You would then be able to refine your search by product name to see only results related to that product.

After you have refined your search, you can either close the refinement to return to the full list of results, or refine the list further by selecting options from other facets. All refinements currently in effect are displayed at the top of the search refinement panel.

Each object on the search result page is assigned a score ranging from 1 to 5 bars depending on its relevance to the search input. A score of 5 bars indicates the object is a strong match, while a score of 1 bar indicates a weak match.