Search on secured portal sites and pages and content management items

For search on a secured local portal site, Portal Search provides a pre-configured search collection. We can also set up our own search collection for searching the portal site.

To set up our own search collection for searching the portal site, apply special security considerations. Create a dedicated crawler user ID. Then, give that user ID access permission to the portlets and portal pages to be available for search by users. For detailed information, refer to Customizing your search collection for secured portal pages.

1. Web Content Manager documents can be searched by portal users, as they are secured by Portal Access Control. Users can search documents to which they have the required access permissions on sites where search is enabled. For details about content security, refer to User roles and access. For information about configuring Portal Search on Web Content Manager, refer to Indexing web content.

2. Set the preferred language of the portal site crawler user ID to match the language of the portal site search collection that it crawls. If we set the language after starting a crawl, we must reset the portal site collection. Refer to Create or resetting the portal site collection.

Parent Security considerations

Related concepts:

User roles and access
Indexing web content

Related tasks:

Customize the search collection for secured portal pages
Reset the default search collection