Search profiles are used to store and load search settings. If you created a report with e.g. the search assistent you can store the search settings for this report and load them later. You will then receive the same search results without going through the 8 steps of the search assistant.
You can create an infinite number of search profiles for nearly every report and search in the portal. If you load a search profile all settings for a report or a search will be overwritten.
create a new profile
Perform your search until you come to the search result list. Click on "search profile". Click on "save current settings". This leads you to an overview of your search parameters of the current search.
At first enter a name for the profile.
Second you can decide which pages you want to hide when you load the profile. This makes sense if you have an 8 step wizard such as the search assistant. Because now you can hide all steps except those which have to be changed (like the time frame for example)
When you finished your settings klick on "save profile"
list of available profiles
Click on "search profiles" in any search or report. You will come to a list with all search profiles available for the current report / search. You can now load, delete or view a profile.
loading a profile
Open a search or report (e.g. search assistant). Click on "searchprofiles". In the list of available search profiles click on the "load" button of the profile you want to load.
In the profile it may be defined that some pages of the search / report are hidden. It depends on this settings of the profile which page will be displayed after you loaded the profile.