Utilities for filtering on long string field content in an Oracle database

You can filter based on the content of long string fields if the Oracle Text feature has been enabled. This is also known as full text searching.
Warning: Do not include long string fields that are encrypted using field level encryption in the search criteria because they can return unexpected results.

If you are using OpenPages® on IBM Software Hub, you must download the full text search utilities before you can apply the filters.

For more information, see Post-provisioning setup for OpenPages.

To apply the filters, enable the Oracle Text feature. For more information, see Enabling Oracle Text. If the Oracle Text feature is not enabled, attempts to filter on the content of long string fields will generate errors.

For details on setting up long text fields, see Long String data type.

There are five utilities provided to help manage full text searching:

To apply filters with long string fields, you must change the OpenPages > Platform > Database > Text Indexes setting to true.

Table 1. Values and what they mean
If the value is set to... Then...
true Filtering is enabled on long string fields.
false Filtering is disabled on long string fields.

The default is false.

For details on working with settings, see Viewing the Configuration and Settings page.