Is TREX mandatory for Talent Management?

[former_member413692]

Dear Experts,

Is TREX a mandatory component for Talent Management? It's because I am having issue when I click "Search" in Talent Management Specialist Launchpad, telling me "Error occurred during the search; contact your system administrator".

And it seems to me that TREX supports only LINUX and MaxDB, which is totally out of our company's landscape.

Thanks,

Steven

[MartinHastik · Accepted solution]

Hi Steven,

yes, TREX is mandatory for all prcesses of Talent Management Specialist (Talent Search, Talent Review Meeting...).

Manager can do a search without TREX.

TREX is normally installed on a seperate server. As far as I know TREX is also available on windows. But  Iam not a basis guy.

best regards

Martin Hastik

[former_member413692 · Accepted solution]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the reply.

I am a bit mixed up, what's the relationship between TREX and Enterprise Search? In the Business Function document of Talent Management, it mentions that the business functions for Enterprise Search should be activated (while in product matrix, Enterprise Search supports only LINUX and MaxDB). But when I surf through the web, many posts said that I need to configure the TREX. Are TREX and Enterprise Search the same thing?

Thanks,

Steven

[MartinHastik · Accepted solution]

Hi Steven,

TREX is the search engine itself. That means Talent management is using enterprise search and enterprise search uses TREX to perform searches and store data.

Enterprise Search is part of SAP Netweaver ABAP ( also called embedded search ). Enterprise search is responsible to index data from HR to TREX and is responsible to redirect search requests from Talent management to TREX and put back the results back to the UI. It also provides tools to maintain and administer the data models.

So Enterprise Search is available on your Netweaver ABAP system. But ES uses TREX. That means if you want to get ES up and running you need TREX. (normaly installed on a different box and connexted by RFC to the Netweaver System)

hope that helps.

Martin Hastik