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

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Default configuration for searching on a local portal site

This topic describes the default portal site search collection that enables your users to search the portal site.

Portal Search provides a default portal site search collection that enables your users to search the portal site. Before your users can search the portal site collection, perform the following tasks:

1. Setting the crawler user ID: (This step is optional.) If you want to use a dedicated crawler user ID for crawling the portal site content source, define and set that crawler user ID:

   1. Define the crawler user ID by using the Manage Users and Groups portlet.

   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 you do this after you started a crawl on the portal site search collection, you need to reset the portal site collection. Refer to Creating or resetting the portal site collection.)

   3. Edit the portal site collection content source and fill in the crawler user ID and its password. To do this

      1. Click Launch Main Menu > Administration > Search Administration > Manage Search > Search Collections.

      2. In the search collection list, click the Portal Content search collection.

      3. Click the Edit icon for the Portal Content Source.

      4. Under the General Parameters tab, type the crawler user ID and its password into the appropriate fields and click OK.

2. Starting the initial crawl: Start the initial crawl on the portal site content source. To do this, click the Start Ccrawler icon for the content source.

3. Configuring regular crawls: If you want regular crawls on the portal site content source, perform either of the following tasks:

   • Enable the default scheduler. To do this

     1. Click the View Content Source Schedulers icon for the content source. Manage Search displays the Manage Schedulers panel.

     2. Click Disabled. Manage Search changes the scheduler to Enabled and displays a confirmation message.

   • Set up a scheduler. To do this

     1. Click the Edit icon for the content source.

     2. Select the Schedulers tab.

     3. Configure a schedule as required. For more details about how to do this, refer to the Manage Search portlet help.

For more detailed information about how to work with content sources refer to Managing the content sources of a search collection and to the Manage Search portlet help.

Notes:

1. Only the main panels of the portlets on the portal pages are indexed and can be searched. The crawler does not follow links that are specified within a portlet.

2. By default, items in the result lists from portal site searches provide no summary information. If end users are using the Search and Browse portlet they can refer to the information given under for information about the search result list item. If you want to have the summary information added, configure the portlet with the summary parameter enabled as follows: PortalCollectionSummarizer=on.

3. When you crawl a portal site, be aware of the Memory required for crawls and the Time required for crawls and imports and availability of documents.

4. Set the preferred language of the crawler user ID to match the language of the search collection that it crawls.

5. The portal site search collection is created when an administrator navigates to the Manage Search portlet. However, start the crawl for users to be able to search the portal site. Depending on the portal configuration and environment and possible customization, you might need to reset the portal site search collection that was created. For details about such scenarios and the necessary tasks to perform refer to Creating or resetting the portal site collection.

6. If your users search the portal site search collection on a secured portal site, refer to the additional information under Enabling search on a secured portal site with the default configuration.

When users search a portal site, they can access portal pages of two types:

• Public or anonymous portal pages. These are pages that users can view without authentication by user ID and password. The crawler can crawl public pages on the portal site on which it resides, or on a remote portal.

  If you want anonymous users to be able to search the public pages of the portal site, refer to Enabling anonymous users to search public pages of the portal.

• Secured portal pages. These are pages that users can only view if they authenticate themselves to the portal by logging in to the portal with a user ID and password. Refer to Configuring search on a secured portal site.

  You can crawl, index, and search secured portal pages only on your local portal installation. For security reasons, you cannot crawl secured pages of one portal site from another portal site.

If you customize search on the portal site, you might find useful information under Configuring the default location for search collections and Creating or resetting the portal site collection.

If the portal site is multilingual and your users use different languages to search the portal, refer to Crawling and searching a multilingual portal site.

 

Parent topic:

Searching a local portal site

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