Understanding PeopleSoft Search Framework

PeopleSoft Interaction Hub delivers enhanced search functionality that is built on the PeopleSoft Search Framework delivered in PeopleTools. This search framework consists of PeopleSoft components (pages and records provided by PeopleTools), which provide a centralized interface for configuring PeopleSoft integration with a back-end search engine, creating search artifacts like search definitions, search categories, and building and maintaining search indexes.

The PeopleSoft Search Framework enables application developers and implementation teams, to create search artifacts in a consistent, declarative manner and to deploy and maintain search indexes using one standard interface, regardless of PeopleSoft application.

See the product documentation for PeopleTools: Search Technology, “PeopleSoft Search Technology Overview.”

The search framework enables users to incorporate additional sources of content into search groups and adds additional features for users:

• Users can perform a search from anywhere in the portal and retrieve links to documents, managed content, websites, and transactions, all in one place.

• Searches can be performed across the entire portal, or content from other content provider systems.

• Search results are filtered for security to ensure that users see only content to which they have access.

• Searches can be limited to a search group.