Working with Search Domains

Developing search domains code is done by creating a model only. All code is automatically generated when the model is saved. However, the main entity needs to have a reference to the search domain.

Step 1

Modeling

The search domain is defined in a single model file that contains both the data structure and the text index settings. See: Model Syntax for Searchdomain for model syntax description.

When the model is saved, several files are automatically generated.

PL/SQL implementation file
Meta data insert script

Step 2

Make search domain apply to entity

When creating a Search Domain you need to make some changes to the Entity model and code. See: Apply Search Domain to Entity for details.

Note: The first time you enable a search domain the text index will be created. The main database table for your entity (that is the LU table) will be locked until the index has been created.

There are few things to know before starting the search domain modeling.

You must model all the entities that you think you’ll need to model the search domains.
All the entities must be mapped to an existing LU in the storage layer. This LU should have a VIEW (which is mapped to the entity) and the storage TABLE. The attributes of the view must be connected to the columns in the base table. These steps are essential for the search domain functionality to work well and even to generate the code without any issues.
The next thing is modeling the relationships among the entities before we model those relationships in the search domain diagram.
After completing the above steps you can proceed with modeling the search domains. After you are decided with the LU s (or entities) to be included in the search domain then the search domain entities are inserted to the model and map the relationships among them.
Since the search domain model follow the same semantics as the entity diagrams it’s easy to model them once the above requirements are satisfied.

Please refer the IFS Applications Technical Documentation to continue with Search Domain. You will find more information on deploying, enabling , disabling search domains in there.

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