Index web content


Overview

To search for web content, content must first be indexed by the WebSphere Portal search engine. Once the content has been indexed, you can run searches using the search center or using a search component.

The WebSphere Portal search engine defines content sources that index web content. All the child site areas and content items of the selected site area will be included in the index. Related content sources are grouped together in a search collection.


Create a content source for a site area

  1. Go to...

      Administration | Search Administration | Manage Search

  2. Select or create a new collection.

    The default search collection is...

      WebContentCollection

  3. Click...

      New Content Source | WCM site

  4. Enter a name in the field...

      Content Source Name

  5. In the field...

      Collect documents linked from this URL

    enter the URL...

    • For a stand-alone server:

        http://hostname:port_number/seedlist/myserver?SeedlistId=library/sitearea1/childsitearea2&Source=com.ibm.workplace.wcm.plugins.seedlist.retriever.WCMRetrieverFactory&Action=GetDocuments

      Replace any spaces with a "+" symbol. For example...

        library+one/site+area+one

    • For a cluster, use the host and port of the HTTP server:

          http://httpserver:port_number/seedlist/myserver?SeedlistId=library/sitearea1/childsitearea2&Source=com.ibm.workplace.wcm.plugins.seedlist.retriever.WCMRetrieverFactory&Action=GetDocuments

    • For a virtual portal configured to use the URL Context as its access point:

        http://httpserver:port_number/seedlist/myserver/virtualPortalContext?SeedlistId=library/sitearea1/childsitearea2&Source=com.ibm.workplace.wcm.plugins.seedlist.retriever.WCMRetrieverFactory&Action=GetDocuments

  6. For a virtual portal configured to use a different hostname as its access point:

      http://vphostname:port_number/seedlist/myserver/?SeedlistId=library/sitearea1/childsitearea2&Source=com.ibm.workplace.wcm.plugins.seedlist.retriever.WCMRetrieverFactory&Action=GetDocuments

    The seedlist ID can be any of the following:

    • library
    • library/site area
    • library/site area/sub-site area/...
    • the JCRID of a site area

  7. If the content to be indexed is secured, go to the Security tab and enter the user name and password of the user that will be used to access the secured site. You must then click Create on the search tab itself.

  8. If site uses remote actions, you will need to filter these out of search index. Go to the Filter tab:

    1. Type a name in the Rule Name field

    2. Select Apply rule while Collecting documents

    3. Select the rule type of Exclude

    4. Select the rule basis of URL text

    5. Type *&wcmAuthoringAction=* in the URL text field

    6. Click Create in the Filter tab

  9. Click Create.

If you have multiple parent site areas and want searches to run across all site areas, you can create a content source for each of them in the same collection. If you don't want searches to run across all parent site areas, create a separate collection for each parent site area or group of related parent site areas.


Search web content in a virtual portal

Search services and search collections are separate for individual virtual portals and are not shared between individual virtual portals. You set up an individual search service and separate search collections for each virtual portal. These collections can be used to crawl and search the same set of documents.

If you are using a website that is shared across virtual portals, then to search that website in a virtual portal environment :

  1. Create a new search collection for the virtual portal. You can create a new content source by copying the URL from original search collection.

  2. Create a new search component, or copy an existing search component, and configure it to use the new virtual portal search collection created in step 1.

  3. Create a new search form, using an HTML component, configured to use the search component created in step 2.

  4. Create a new content item to display the HTML component created in step 3.

You must perform these steps for each virtual portal in system.


Enable search for web content

Next topic: Configure Web Content Manager search options


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