Administer Portal Search
Manage Search is the Portal Search administration portlet.
To enable Portal Search and make documents available for search by users...
- Create search services.
Use the default search services provided with portal, or we can create additional search services, for example, for setting up remote search or search in a portal cluster.
- Set up search collections
- Create one or more content sources for that collection and have them crawled.
- Configure the search portlets for various environments and requirements, for example, for local or remote search service, or for search on anonymous pages.
Migration notes
Starting with HCL WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 the syntax of the seedlist URL has changed to seedlist format 1.0. Older search collections created before portal V 6.1 use seedlist format 0.9 and cannot be reused or migrated to the new format. Starting with HCL WebSphere Portal v7 JCR was added as 1.0 seedlist format. Be sure that you index all content again before using seedlist format 1.0.
Portal Search is preconfigured with a search service, a portal site search collection, and scopes. We can add and remove search services, collections, and scopes. We can perform most of the ConfigEngine tasks for Portal Search using the administration portlet Manage Search. Alternatively, administer Portal Search using the WAS console and resource providers in XML format.
All search collections are available by the All Sources selection option of the Search Center portlet.
See
- Manage search services
- Search service configuration parameters
- Configure the default location for search collections
- Configure the Search Center portlet
- Replace the search administrator user ID
- Customize the Search Center
- Use the WAS console to administer Portal Search
- Set up search collections
- Search and crawl portal and other sites
Parent Portal Search
Related concepts:
Set up search collections