Search Center
The portal search engine helps the site visitors to find information easily. Visitors can search HCL WebSphere Portal and WCM sources, along with additional internal and external web search sources that you make available to them. To help your visitors manage searching different information sources, define search collections and scopes.
Portal search administration
Administer search from the Administration portlets. To see what is configured after the installation, go to...
Administration | Search Administration | Manage Search
Manage Search is divided into Search Services, Search Collections, and Search Scopes. A search service is the instance of the search engine provided with the portal. We create additional search services, or search engine instances, to distribute the search load over several nodes.If HCL WebSphere Portal is deployed in a cluster, install and configure a remote search service. In a cluster environment, the remote search service replaces the Default Search Service.
A search collection stores keywords and metadata, and maps them to their original source. A search collection can have multiple content sources, such as web content, portlets, and more. We can set up multiple search collections for content sources if needed.
Search scopes helps site visitors limit searches. Use search scopes to define subsets of information stored search collections.
Search configuration after installation
After the installation finishes, the following search capability is available:
- Search Service
- There is one search service configured, Default Search Service.
- Search Collections
- There are two search collections associated with the default search service:
Default Search Collection Includes two content sources, WCM Content Source and Portal Content Source. They include content that is delivered on the website, also referred to as runtime content. JCRCollection1 Includes one content source, JCRSource. This content source includes the WCM authoring artifacts, such as the authoring template.
- Search Scopes
- There are two search scopes:
All Sources Includes everything Managed Web Content Includes only WCM content
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