Employee Search:

Summary:

With the Employee Search feature, you can do the following:

Provide end users with an option to search and view information about themselves as well as other domain users
Help yourself (administrator) to search and locate users or retrieve any information about them

How to configure the AD search:

Click on "Configuration --> Self-Service --> Employee Search".
Select the "Enable Employee Search" checkbox
Select the "Domain"

Click on the "Add OUs" link to perform "OU based Selection"
Select the OU's from the Pop-Up and Click on OK

You would be provided with 3 tabs:

Users
Contacts
Groups

Employee Search is a 'criteria based search'. You enable anyone or all of the above mentioned options.

Enabling the "Users/Contacts/Groups" check boxes

Select the desired "Display Columns'
You can 'Configure the Order' in which the Display Columns appear by clicking on the 'UP' & 'DOWN' buttons
Configure the "Search Criteria"
Choose the desired "Search Criteria Options"
You can "Configure the Order" of the "Search Criteria Options" using the "Up" & "Down" buttons

Click "Save" to store the configured settings

Fine tune Employee Search options

ADSelfService Plus provides more options to the administrators to fine tune Employee Search that best fits the organization's policy.

Under Employee Search, click More Options

Select Enable Organization Chart checkbox to allow employees to view the "Searched Account's Position" in the Organizational Hierarchy

Select Hide Unmanaged users in Organization chart checkbox to hide unmanaged users from search results

Select Exclude disabled users from search results and Organization chart checkbox to exclude disabled users from appearing in the search results and organization chart

Select Show Employee Search & Organization Chart on Login Page Also checkbox to place the "Employee Search" feature on the login page of this application

Selecting the option Don't show photos in employee search & organization chart will hide the employee photos from being shown in the search results and organization chart

Selecting the option Use jpegPhoto attribute for photos will fetch the photo from jpegPhoto attribute in Active Directory

Selecting the Show only users from the same forest in the search results check box will display only the users who are in the same forest in the search results

Click Save to save the configured settings

Note: Make sure you disable “Show Employee Search & Organization Chart on Login Page also” to prevent users from viewing other forest users in the search results through the search option in the login page.

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