Use the search seedlist 1.0 format
As of version 6.1.5, Portal Search is configured to support the IBMWeb Content Manager search seedlist 1.0 format by default. Versions before 6.1.5 use Web Content Manager search seedlist format 0.9.
Search seedlist 1.0 provides several features:
- You can use the web content page type to render content found in the search results on the corresponding web content page.
- You can include custom metadata fields from a web content item that appear in the search seedlist but not in the HTML source.
- You can search within a specific library or site area, across all web content libraries, or across a list of libraries.
- You can perform incremental crawling of libraries for faster seedlist processing. With incremental crawling, when a crawl requests new items, only items that have been added, changed, or deleted since the previous crawl are retrieved.
Search seedlist 1.0 can make access control information available in a way that makes pre-filtering of contents possible. Pre-filtering provides the fastest filtering approach because it takes place in the search index level. An additional advantage of pre-filtering is that remote secured content sources can be searched from the portal. The filtering mode is defined as part of the search service configuration parameters.
- 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 after updating the Web Content Manager seedlist format from 0.9 to 1.0.
- Search seedlist 1.0 uses the POC (piece of content) service to derive URLs to content. These URLs can be processed only by the JSR 286 web content viewer. Because of this support, the traditional web content viewer, based on the IBM Portlet API, is not supported when using search seedlist 1.0.
Related tasks
Administer Portal Search