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# Key Steps in the Vehicle Definition Search Workflow

Before you set up a search configuration, understand the vehicle definition search workflow in Automotive Cloud.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions.</td></tr></tbody></table>

## Explore the Vehicle Definition Searchable Field Object

The Vehicle Definition Searchable Field object also combines fields from multiple objects and helps users search for a vehicle's model specifications by using the different fields as criteria. It acts as the dataset that forms the basis for inventory search but more specifically for vehicle definition details.

The Vehicle Definition Searchable Field object combines key fields from the following objects.

- Product
- Price Book Entry
- Business Brand
- Geo Country
- Vehicle Definition

## Explore the Search Experience

Create a search criteria configuration to specify the following:

- Select which fields users can use as search criteria
- Select which fields are displayed for search results
- Select fields for sorting and aggregating search results
- Specify how the distance is calculated by the search framework to generate results
- Add the types of actions that users can take on the search results

Create a searchable object configuration to specify the following:

- Specify the data synchronization job that creates and updates records in the Vehicle Definition Searchable Field object
- Map the search criteria fields to existing picklist fields on source objects so that users can search by selecting predefined values

## Explore the Data Processing Engine

The Update Vehicle Definition Searchable Field Values Data Processing Engine definition also combines fields from multiple objects and transforms source records to write back data into the Vehicle Definition Searchable Field object. Clone this template and activate the definition to use in your searchable object configuration for searching vehicle model specifications for various use cases, such as rehashing an Automotive loan or a lease.