At the top of the page, users can search for an action or a person's name by entering it in the Search field.
People Search
People Search in the Global Header enables you to search for and find people in your organization.
The benefits of the Global Header People Search include:
- Easy access from every page.
- Supports fuzzy matching, allowing you to find an employee by a search term with a one-character difference from the target employee name.
- Supports searching for employee names that contain characters with accents, umlauts, diereses, etc.
- Ability to control the Employee Central (EC) and non-EC user info displayed in the search results with Role-Based Permissions.
Fuzzy Search in People Search
Fuzzy Search allows you to find an employee by a search term with a one-character difference from the target employee's name. This feature applies to the following scenarios when searching for employees:
- One missing or redundant character. If you search for Joerg, the results also return Jörg and vice versa.
- One misspelled character. If you search for ALLEX, the search results also return Alex and Allen, and vice versa.
Action Search
Action Search is a feature that facilitates navigation and enhances overall system usability.
End users can use Action Search to find dozens of common actions directly in the Search field at the top of the page. Users can use natural language to describe what they want to do and then select from a list of suggested actions.
Administrators can use Action Search to access Admin Center. Administrators can also:
- Create a search for relevant actions based on keywords and synonyms.
- Manage and configure their own action keywords and custom links.
There are several predefined actions and paraphrases within SAP SuccessFactors. If you would like for users to have additional keywords or paraphrases to search by, you can add your custom paraphrase within a specific Action.
