Interpreting Search Results Click Choose Attributes to specify additional attribute search criteri

Interacting with Your Portal 2-13 Figure 2–4 Example of Search Results Page ■ Items: Click the Items tab to display a list of the items that meet your search criteria. Click the item display name to display the item itself. ■ Pages: Click the Pages tab to display a list of the pages that meet your search criteria. Click a page name to display that page. ■ Categories: Click the Categories tab to display a list of the categories that meet your search criteria. Click a category display name to list the items associated with that category. ■ Perspectives: Click the Perspectives tab to display a list of the perspectives that meet your search criteria. Click a perspective display name to list the items associated with that perspective. If the search criteria includes a specific category or perspective, you can ignore the results on the Categories and Perspectives tabs. When you search by category or perspective, only the Items and Pages tabs display valid results. Bulk Action Link If you are searching in a single page group, a Bulk Action link may be displayed to allow you to perform actions on multiple search results simultaneously. This link is not displayed for searches on the Shared Objects page group. The Bulk Action link is a configurable option on search results pages, it is not displayed by default. For more information on displaying the Bulk Action link, for Custom Search portlets only, see Section 16.3.3, The Custom Search Form. Search Result Information Figure 2–5 shows the default information that is displayed alongside item links returned in search results. The page designer determines which attributes are displayed with each search result and whether the attributes display links, see Section 16.3.4.3, Customizing Search Results. The default attributes include the object’s Create Date, its page group, and its classification category and perspectives. If you click a link but you do not have the required access privileges then access to the object will be denied. Figure 2–5 Search Result Information 2-14 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Portal To display the item, click the Display Name. To display information about the item, click the property sheet icon. Figure 2–6 Property Sheet Icon Oracle Text When Oracle Text is enabled, additional icons may be displayed with your search results. ■ Your page designer determines which icons are displayed, see Section 10.2.9, Changing the Attributes Displayed in a Region. ■ Your portal administrator determines whether gists and themes are generated for search results. For more information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle Portal available on the Oracle Portal documentation page of the Oracle Technology Network at http:www.oracle.comtechnologyproductsiasportaldocument ation.html . Figure 2–7 Oracle Text Search Result Icons Click to display an HTML version of any file item. Click to display an HTML version of any file item with the search words highlighted. Click to display an item summary generated by Oracle Text, also called the items gists. Click to display the nouns and verbs appearing most often within the item, also called the items themes. Score value Displays the Oracle Text relevancy score, rating how well each result matches the search word or any other textual search criteria, for example, 70. The score is high when terms are found in the title. If there are multiple terms in the title, the result ranks even higher. Weighting is also given when multiple terms are found close together, or when search results contain the most matches. Datenumerical search criteria is not included in the Score calculation, so results that only match datenumerical search criteria, do not display a score value.

2.2.3 Saving and Reusing Searches

When you save a search, you save all the search criteria under a single name. This enables you to repeat the search at a later time by clicking a link in the Saved Searches portlet, rather than re-entering the criteria manually. Interacting with Your Portal 2-15 Saved searches are displayed in the Saved Searches portlet shown in Figure 2–8 . Figure 2–8 Saved Searches Portlet If you cannot see the Saved Searches portlet and you have the appropriate privileges, add the portlet to a page. See Section 2.3.1, Adding a Portlet to a Page. If you do not have the privileges to add the portlet to a page, ask your page designer to add it for you. You must be logged in to Oracle Portal to save a search and see the Saved Searches portlet.

2.2.3.1 Saving a Search

To save search criteria: 1. Perform your search.

2. On the search results page, click the Save Search link.

Save Search is the default text for this link. If the Custom Search portlet on the search results page has been customized, the link text may be different, or may not be displayed at all. See also Section 16.3.4.3, Customizing Search Results. If you are not logged in, you will not see the Save Search link.

3. In the Display Name field, enter a name under which to save the search criteria.

4. Click OK.

The name assigned to this search is displayed in the Saved Searches portlet. To re-submit a saved search, click the name entered here. Do not enter a display name that just contains blank spaces as no link text will be displayed.

2.2.3.2 Adding a List of Saved Searches to a Page

If you save one or more searches, you can access them from your home page, or from any page, as long as you have the privilege to add the Saved Searches portlet to that page. To add a list of saved searches to a page:

1. At the top of the page, click Personalize.

2. In the region where you want to display saved searches, click the Add Portlet

icon.

3. Click Portal Content Tools in the Portlet Repository.

4. Click Saved Searches.

Saved Searches is now included in the Selected Portlets list. 5. Click Close to return to the page. 6. Click OK. 7. In the Saved Searches portlet header, click Personalize.