Table of Contents

Search

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. The Design Issues
  4. Standard Population Choices
  5. Parsing, Standardization and Cleaning
  6. Customer Identification Systems
  7. Fraud and Intelligence Systems
  8. Marketing Systems
  9. Simple Search
  10. Summary

Application and Database Design Guide

Application and Database Design Guide

Search with Generic Indexes

Search with Generic Indexes

Call SSA-NAME3 and pass
FIELD=Generic_Field
in the Controls parameter of the
get_ranges
to invoke the algorithm that builds search strategies for generic data.
Generic data might contain either person names, organization names, or addresses. It might also contain a combination of these. For example, if the search for
'Greenhorn'
is expected to find the person,
Peter Greenhorn
, and the organization,
Greenhorn Industries
, then you can use
Generic_Field
to build search ranges based on the
Generic_Field
algorithm.
To match candidates to the search information, use match purpose ‘Generic’. ‘Generic’ match purpose matches general non-specific data. This purpose requires only
Generic_Field
.
The search ranges generated by
Generic_Field
assume that importance of information in the search text decreases from left to right. You can build ranges from the first entity in the search record. To meet this requirement, embed compound name markers between different entities in the search text. The
Generic_Field
algorithm limits the creation of search ranges to the first entity if compound name markers are present.
While the
Generic_Field
algorithm matches candidates to search record, it reduces the content in the significance of the order of words and allows flexibility to prepare match candidates. Algorithms designed for specific type of data, such as
Person_Name
,
Address_Part1
and
Organization_Name
carry significantly less overhead than the
Generic_Field
due to their targeted processing domain. The
Generic_Field
algorithm reduces the overhead to create and maintain separate indexes, and allows applications such as Identity Resolution to simplify the search experience by not having to categorize search data.
The
Generic_Field
algorithm has an edit list with rules that you can override with the Population Override Manager or Edit Rule Wizard.

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