Searching Sites
You use Portal Search to search for text displayed in Web sites created by IBM® Lotus WCM . To search for text displayed in a Web site do the following:
- Create a search collection in Portal Search and then make a site searchable.
- To search Web sites viewed using a rendering portlet, you can use a search form containing a search element, or use either the Search Center, or a Search and Browse portlet.
- To search Web sites viewed using the Web content servlet, use a search form containing a search element.
- Configuring a site to be searchable To search a site first create a search collection and then enable a site to be searchable.
- Configuring WCM search options You can edit the following search options to manage how the search service works with WCM search forms
- Creating a search form To create a search form create both a search query using an HTML element, and a search result using a search component.
- Configuring the Search and Browse portlet to search for Web content You can use the Search and Browse portlet to search for Web content by adding a Web content search collection to the configuration of a new Search and Browse portlet.
- Configuring Search Center to search for Web content You can use the Search Center to search for Web content by adding a Web content search collection to the Search Center.