Administer Portal Search
Administrative tasks
- Use the default search services provided with portal, or can create additional search services for things like remote search or search in a portal cluster.
- Configure Portal Search.
- Install the Search and Browse end user portlet for advanced searches
- Create a search collection and define its properties, thereby allowing for fast and efficient searches.
- Create one or more content sources for that collection and have them crawled.
- Select which documents in a collection will be available for search.
Portal Search is preconfigured with a search service, a portal site search collection, and scopes. You can add and remove search services, collections, and scopes.
All search collections are available by the All Sources selection option of the Search Center portlet.
Migrate search collections
The syntax of the seedlist URL has changed with seedlist format 1.0. Older search collections created using seedlist format 0.9 cannot be reused or migrated to the new format. Be sure that you index all content again before using seedlist format 1.0.
Administer Search
- Manage search services
- Search service configuration parameters
- Configure a remote search service
- Backup and recovery of search collections configuration
- Configure the default location for search collections
- Configure the Search Center portlet
- Customize the Search Center
- Configure the Search and Browse portlet for end users
- Enable anonymous users to search public pages of the portal
- Configure the custom portal themes to include the search box
- Customize own search portlet helps
- Use the dmgr console to administer Portal Search
Parent
Portal Search
Set up search collections
Related tasks
Configure the Search and Browse portlet for end users
Use the search seedlist 1.0 format