Depending on how your system is configured, developers can search for rules, data instances and work items, and application users can search for work items. By default, full-text search is enabled for rules, and is accessed from the Designer Studio menu.
Full-text search uses index files to provide the full-text search capability. Indexes are typically updated once a minute in the background during the system pulse performed by the Pega-RULES agent.
From the Search landing page, you can enable and disable full-text search, configure the directory where the index files are stored, enable and disable encryption among search nodes, and include or exclude properties with access control policies.
To enable search, you must configure or create some Dynamic System Settings. See Dynamic System Settings for search.
Allowing application users to find work items or work item attachments by using full-text search (in addition to structured searches based on owner, party, or status) has both advantages and costs.
The standard sections @baseclass.FindWork and @baseclass.SearchField support full-text search. If your application uses a composite portal, include one of these sections (or a similar custom section) in your portal.