Product Search
Product Search allows FlexNet Operations LLM Enterprise Portal users to locate Products or Files to which they are entitled without having to navigate through the product hierarchy.
This optional functionality can be added or removed from the site by scheduling with your Account Manager or Project Manager. When implemented, a link to the search page will be placed in the left-navigation bar. Users clicking on the link will be taken to a page with a search text box.
Product Search utilizes Lucene, which is open source software from Apache. Components of the search engine include an extraction from the FlexNet Operations LLM database (scheduled every hour), building and modifying the Index to include Account Entitlements and Product metadata, while allowing end users on the FlexNet Operations LLM Enterprise Portals to search the Index.
The following describes the functionalites of Product Search:
Basic Search Criteria
The Product Search functionality allows Enterprise Portal users to find Products and Files to which they are entitled, by using a familiar Internet-style search.
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Simply type a word or phrase in the text box and click the Search button. |
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The search-term (also called “query”) will by default return results that will match ANY of the words entered (not ALL of the words). |
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The search is not case-sensitive. |
Advanced Search Criteria
The result set may be improved by using the following operators:
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Use double quotes to find an exact multi-word phrase. |
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Use "+" before a term to require that a particular term be present. For example the criteria "+macintosh" will only find Products or Files that contain the term "macintosh". |
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Use "*" as a wildcard in your search. It will match zero or more characters, and can be located anywhere in the word, except the beginning. This is particularly useful to search for part numbers or versions. For example the criteria "ABC*" will find terms "ABC", "ABC-123", "ABCDEF", etc. |
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Use "AND" (in upper case) between words when you want to require that each of the words exists in the data that produces your results ("OR" is the default). |
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Use "NOT" to exclude a word from being included in the data. |
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Use "~" at the end of a search term to do a "fuzzy" search. For example the criteria "roam~" will find terms similar in spelling to "roam" like "foam" and "roams". |
Search Fields
The criteria entered will be used to search through a data index that includes the following fields:
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Product and File Level User Defined Fields (UDFs), if implemented |
Displayed Results
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The returned results will contain links to a list of Files (either directly or via the Product page) which you are able to download, as well as a description of the result and the date that the Product or File was made available. Additionally, each of the results is scored, based on the quantity and location of your criteria within the indexed data. |
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Before performing the search, Enterprise Portal users can select how to sort the results: by Relevance (the default scoring based on the quantity and location of the criteria on the indexed data) or by Date. When sorting by Relevance, higher scores will be displayed first. When sorting by Date, more recently created Products (or Files) will be displayed first. |