Full-text searching allow users to find records even if they lack the name or number of a record. For example, the name of a city might be mentioned in the notes of the record. To find the record, the user would search by the content of the corresponding field or use Global Search.

To find a document that has been uploaded to the Documents area, users can search for specific text strings, such as a person's name that is mentioned in the document.

To allow users to search the contents of the following areas of TeamConnect, you must add the corresponding search qualifiers to your search views:

•Notes system field in system object records

•Custom fields of type Memo Text

•Description system field in History records

•Content of text-based documents that are uploaded to TeamConnect, such as:

oMicrosoft Word®, Excel®, PowerPoint®

oNovell/Corel WordPerfect®

oAdobe Acrobat® (PDF)

oASCII text files

oHTML files

oOther file types supported for text queries by Oracle Text or SQL Server Full-Text. For a detailed list, see your database server documentation.

Note: Global Search does not support document searches. For more details, see Specifying Search Views Used by Global Search.

Full-Text Search Requirements

To provide content searching capability to users, the following requirements must be met:

•You must configure and enable Oracle Text (Oracle interMedia) or SQL Server Full-Text Search on your TeamConnect installation. This ordinarily happens by default during installation.

•You must add the corresponding fields in search views as qualifiers, as explained in Adding Document Content Searching to Search Views and Adding Field Content Searching to Search Views.