Installed with Search Suggestions

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Several types of components are installed with activation of the Search Suggestions plugin, including tables, user roles, and scheduled jobs.

Roles installed

Role title [name]

Description

Contains roles

Search Suggestions blocked searcher [cannot_read_suggestions]

Doesn't see search or auto-complete suggestions displayed when searching.

None

Search Suggestions exempt searcher [suggestion_exempt]

Submits searches that the system ignores when generating search or auto-complete suggestions.

None

For more details on restricting generation of search suggestions, see [Prevent the creation of suggestions in special cases](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/search-suggestions/preventing-suggestions.md).

Scheduled jobs installed

Scheduled job Description
Build Search Suggestions Converts searches stored in the Search Event [sys_search_event] table into auto-complete suggestions and search suggestions stored in the Search Suggestion [sys_search_suggestion] table.
Prune Search Suggestions Removes the lowest-rated auto-complete suggestions and search suggestions from the Search Suggestion [sys_search_suggestion] table to keep the maximum number of suggestions at 500,000.

Tables installed

Table

Description

Search Event [sys_search_event]

Search strings and details about their associated results, including the search user, application, UI source, session, and language, and any user-specified click rank and refinements.

Search Event per source table [sys_search_source_event]

Correlations between search strings with search results from a specific table (data source). A search that queries multiple tables produces multiple Search Event per source records.

Search Suggestion [sys_search_suggestion]

auto-complete suggestions and search suggestions generated from user searches by the Build Search Suggestions scheduled job. The Prune Search Suggestions scheduled job removes the lowest-rated auto-complete suggestions and search suggestions from this table to keep its maximum size at 500,000 suggestion records.

To learn about individual columns on these tables, see [Search Suggestions tables](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/search-suggestions/understanding-search-suggestion-tables.md).
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