Export and importing search collections

 

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Overview

To import/export search collections, from the Manage Search portlet, use the option...

Use cases...


Procedure

  1. On the source portal export your search collections.

    This exports the configuration data and all document URLs of your search collections.

    Before you export a collection, make sure that the portal application process has write access to the target directory location. Otherwise you might get an error message, such as File not found.

    When you specify the target directory location for the export, be aware that the export can overwrite files in that directory.

  2. Document all of the following data:

    • The target file names and directory locations to which you export the collections.
    • The location, name, description, and language for each of the collections
    • Collection language
    • Remove common words

  3. Create the search collections on the target portal.

    This task creates the empty shell for the search collection. Fill in the following data entry fields and select the following options according to the data that you documented:

      Location of Collection New collection location.
      Name of Collection Collection name.

      The name can match the old setting, but does not have to match it.

      Description of Collection The description can match the old setting, but does not have to match it.
      Specify Collection Language Select this to match the old setting.
      Select Categorizer Optional. The value will be overwritten by the import.
      Select Summarizer Optional. The value will be overwritten by the import.
      Remove common words from queries (e. g. in, of, on, etc.) Check or uncheck this to match the old setting.

    You do not have to add content sources or documents; that will be completed by the import task.

  4. Import the data of your search collections into the target portal.

    Import collection data only into an empty collection. Do not import collection data into a target collection that has content sources or documents already.

Additionally to exporting and importing your search collections, you have to configure Portal Search on the target portal.

When you import search collection data into a collection, most of the collection configuration data are also imported.

For example, this includes...

If you configured such settings when creating the new collection, they are overwritten by the imported settings.

When you import a collection, a background process fetches, crawls, and indexes all documents which are listed by URL in the previously exported file. Therefore be aware of...


Parent topic:

Set up search collections


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