Portal Search key features and capabilities
Key features of Portal Search...
- Advanced search capabilities in the Search Center portlet
- You can now refine your search by specifying...
- title
- owner
- other document properties
- Refine your search by using facets
- Available facets can include...
- file type
- component
- Last Modified facet with several time spans to use
- Use one or multiple search services
- Use the search services that are provided with portal, or add one or more search services to Portal Search. Required for...
- remote search
- portal in a cluster
When you create a search collection, you select the search service under which it works.
- Use search scopes for users to focus their searches
- You can define search scopes to limit search results to specific content location. This enables users to target their searches better. Users can select these scopes from a selection menu provided with the search box in the theme and with the Search Center portlet.
- Add custom links
- You can add custom links with Web link shortcuts to search locations, allowing users to do direct searches to popular Web search engines, such as...
- Yahoo!
Users can select the custom links from a selection menu provided with the search box in the theme and with the Search Center portlet.
- Create search collections
- You can define one or more search collections for a search service. You can give a specific set of users access to a search collection by using portal access control.
- Crawl multiple sites
- Administrators can specify one or more starting points per search collection. This includes...
- Web sites
- local document collections
- public pages of other portals
- public pages on your portal
- secured pages on your portal based on Portal Access Control
You can combine different types of content sources into one search collection.
- Internet style search capabilities
- Internet style match plus ( + ) and unmatch minus ( - ) symbols.
- Explicitly search for phrases by enclosing keywords in double-quotes ( " ).
- Specify a trailing asterisk ( * ) as a wild card character in keywords.
If such a masked keyword results in more than 50 words, the list is truncated.
- Browse documents
- You can browse a collection in addition to searching for information.
- Summarizer
- Portal Search provides a summarizer.
- Language Support
- Portal Search provides language support.
- Search results
- The search results page now includes additional document specific information such as...
- summary
- original URL
- creation dates
- modification dates
- author
- description
Users can toggle between Show Details and Hide Details views.
- Apply filter rules for the crawler to determine what pages are to be fetched and indexed:
- As an administrator use these to control the type of information that is retrieved from content sources. Documents or pages that are retrieved have to comply to a set of given rules in order to be inserted into the collection and made available for search via the search portlets.
- Monitor of the crawling process
- Administrators can now view up-to-date information about the status of each crawl process. This includes:
- Whether the crawl process is currently running
- How long the crawl process has been running
- How many documents have been collected.
- Approval of documents before they are inserted into the collection
- Use this function to selectively approve which crawled documents you want to include in the collection. If this option is selected when defining the collection, documents are stored in a list of pending search collection items until they are approved.
- Edit document metadata
- Administrators can edit the metadata associated with a document including the title, author, description, and date.
- Crawling content sources:
- Configure periodic crawls of content sources
- Administrators can choose to automatically refresh an index by scheduling automatic crawls, for example, "every night at 2 am".
- Start and stop crawls manually
- If required, administrators can manually stop an index build or refresh. They can also manually start an index update process.
- Monitor the search collection process
- Administrators can monitor the crawling process by viewing the status of the content sources.
- National language support
- You can select the language for which a search collection is optimized.
The default is English.
This feature increases the quality of search results: it allows users to search for the keyword as entered, including grammatical variants, such as plurals and inflections. This feature supports all national languages that the portal supports.
- Specify a proxy or socks server for external content sources
- To have external content sources crawled, you can specify proxy and socks servers with the port number in the Manage Search portlet.
- Other portal components with a search feature
- With portal you use IBM Lotus WCM and Portal Personalization to create and manage content for your portal or Web site. You use these applications separately, or together as an integrated content solution for your portal or Web site. These components are based on JCR and have their own search feature.
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