Portal Search

Use Portal Search to facilitate indexing content sources and searching. You can administer search services, search collections, and search scopes, as well as enhance the search experience of the portal site with the portal search portlets.

• Portlets for working with Search

  Get an overview of the portal search portlets.

• Plan and preparing for Portal Search

  Learn about some planning considerations and first steps that you need to apply before working with Portal Search.

• Administer Portal Search

  You can administer and configure many details for Portal Search.

• Set up search collections

  View information on setting up search collections for search by users. This also includes creating content sources and managing search scopes and custom links.

• Search and crawling portal and other sites

  Configure your local portal site, and crawl remote portal sites, so that they are searchable by users. Run crawlers against other, external Web sites to make them searchable by local portal users.

• Search by external users on the portal site

  You can have external users search public pages of the portal.

• Work with the search portlets

  Learn about how to work with the search portlets.

• Hints and tips for using Portal Search

  View some useful tips for using Portal Search.

• Log and tracing in Portal Search

  Enable logging and tracing for Portal Search in order to obtain more information.

Parent topic:

Administer WebSphere Portal

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