Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows

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Search

Search for documents using the Search Center.

IBM^® WebSphere^® Portal Express provides the Search Center, which allows users to perform a search that returns documents from within Document Manager, as well as content that extends beyond the Document Manager boundary.

To make a document library searchable through the WebSphere Portal Express Search Center, register the document library with the Search Center.

Searches are initiated from a search bar and scope selector located in the portal banner. Search scopes allow users to define search area.

Users can also customize search preferences. The Search Center provides the following functionality:

• Search scope

  All Sources	Search all sources available to the user, including documents
  Library Documents	Search across document libraries on the server
  Managed Web Content	Search all pages managed by a registered WCM site
  Customized scopes created by the Administrator

• Search results display:
  • relevance
  • title
  • file size
  • description
  • path
  • owner
  • date

• Customized search result details

• Live Name active linking from document owner's name in search results

• Configurable user preferences

Accurate searching in Document Manager requires that you maintain the search index.

The search index will update itself to include new documents at certain intervals. The default minimum time between search index updates is 30 minutes.

For more information about using the Search Center, refer to the Directory Search topic. Information about techniques for optimizing search performance across the content repository can be found in the Database performance topic.

 

Parent topic:

Working with documents

 

Related tasks
Searching for documents Including a document library in the Search Center

 

Related information
Portal Search Database performance

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