Setting Up a Searchable Flexfield

Oracle iRecruitment enables you to set up a flexfield to capture additional candidate and vacancy

information that can then be used by managers looking for a suitable candidate and by candidates searching

for a job.

You must use the Additional Search Criteria Details flexfield to define what information you want to

capture and then add these additional fields to the Create Vacancy and the candidate's Work Preference

pages. You can then include these same fields in your candidate and vacancy search pages so that the

information is available to candidates or managers performing searches.

When you run the concurrent processes to notify managers of suitable candidates or to notify candidates of

suitable jobs, or when your managers perform candidate matching for a vacancy, you may not want to

include all of the flexfield segments in these searches. For example, imagine you have set up a segment in

your flexfield to record Number of Years Experience and have a vacancy that requires 5 or more year’s

experience. If this segment was included when matching candidates to vacancies, only those candidates

with exactly 5 years experience would be considered as matches. Those with more than 5 years would not

be returned as the search only performs an exact match on the value in the segment. To control which

segments are included in these searches you use the IRC: Search Criteria Segment Matching profile option.

Additional Information: The IRC: Search Criteria Segment Matching profile has no impact on searches

run from any of the search pages.

To set up a searchable flexfield:

1. Define the segments for the Additional Search Criteria Details descriptive flexfield in the

Descriptive Flexfields Segments window.

Additional Information: When defining this flexfield Oracle recommends that your

segments should not be context sensitive.

2. Personalize the Create Vacancy pages and candidate's Work Preference pages to display the

Additional Search Criteria Details flexfield segments.

3. Personalize the following pages to display the Additional Search Criteria Details flexfield segments

in the Search criteria region and the results table as required. The Column Name is

SearchCriteriaFlex:

• Vacancy Search

• Candidate Search

• Candidates for Vacancy Advanced Search

• Visitor Job Search

• Candidate Job Search

• Candidate Job Advanced Search

To configure the flexfield, see: Introduction to Oracle Application Framework, Release 12

Documentation (Metalink Note # 391554.1)

4. Set the profile option IRC: Search Criteria Segment Matching in the System Values Profiles

window. This profile option determines the segments that are matched when the concurrent

processes to notify managers of suitable candidates or to notify candidates of suitable jobs are run,

or when your managers perform candidate matching for a vacancy. For example, to include only

segments two, three, and five enter 2|3|5.

System Administrator�Application�Flexfield�Segments

Query Additional Search Criteria Details Flexfield

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In this structure there are 5 segments are there from this segment I enabled only three segments, these

segments will appear in Search Vacancy page. Let us check

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Marked three segments are enabled in DFF. If you want to see only 2 segments for particular responsibility

we can do by page personalization, to do this we have to enable personalization in profile options. Let us

check this

We can put this at 5 levels

1. Application

2. Responsibility

3. Server

4. Organization

5. user

FND: Personalization Region Link Enabled

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Save and again search the below profile.

Personalize Self-Service Defn

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Put yes at site level and responsibility level and save then close the window and then come to Vacancy

page there links will be enabled. Let’s check

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Here click on Personalize “Search”, now we are going to hide one segment form the above image by

doing personalization.

If the system asks to select organization just select your business group and click on Apply button then the

following page gets open, from this page click on Flex: (SearchCriteriaFlex)’s button.

In before page this is not appearing, why

because in profile options before we did not

enabled. You can check image-3

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When you clicked on the above update mark the following page will open there give the Structure Name

segments name in this format Global Data Elements|Relocate|Bonded and click on Apply.

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Click on Apply and come to Vacancy Search page there you can see changes.

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If you want to put default just go to same page where you did this changes and click on (Undo) button,

then there appear Inherit.

Then click on apply button, come to vacancy search page and check 3 segment would be appear.

Then go and clear the profile options to look page clean.

See, here appearing only 2

segments check Image-6 there 3

segments there.