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Oct 05, 2012 at 06:33 PM

Portal Search and structured data

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Is NetWeaver Portal Search capable of indexing and searching SAP structured data?

A sample use case would be like the following:

- SAP has something like an employee record in the HR module (a structured data)
- A user with permission to see employee records type the name of this employee in the NetWeaver Portal Search box and fires the search.
- In this case, we'd like the search results to include a link to see the employee record in the proper NetWeaver Portal Page (and we expect this result wouldn't be displayed for a user without permission to see the employee record)

I know that SAP Portal Search is based on the Knowledge Management module, and is capable of indexing and searching non-structured data (like portal pages or documents in KM module), but I'm not sure about structured data.

KM uses TREX as search engine, and I know TREX itself is capable of indexing structured data, but I'm not sure use cases like the one I pictured above are possible.

If that is possible, where can I find documentation on how to make it happen? In other words, how do I configure NetWeaver Portal so that it indexes and searches each kind of structured data?

Thanks