Search on secured portal sites and pages and content management items

For search on a secured local portal site, Portal Search provides a pre-configured search collection. We can also set up our own search collection for searching the portal site.

To set up our own search collection for searching the portal site, you need to apply special security considerations. We create a dedicated crawler user ID and give that user ID access permission to the portlets and portal pages to be available for search by users. This is the sum of all the access permissions to all the portal resources combinethat the users have who will search the portal site. For more detailed information about this refer to the topic about Customizing the search collection for secured portal pages.

1. IBM Web Content Manager documents can be searched by portal users, as they are secured by Portal Access Control. Users can search documents to which they have the required access permissions on sites that have been search enabled. For details about content security refer to User roles and access. For details about configuring Portal Search on Web Content Manager items refer to Indexing web content.

2. Set the preferred language of the portal site crawler user ID to match the language of the portal site search collection that it crawls. If you do this after you started a crawl on the portal site search collection, you need to reset the portal site collection. Refer to the topic about Creating or resetting the portal site collection.

Parent: Security considerations
Related:
Search on secured Portal Search collections and other secured content sources
Encrypting sensitive data
Configure web server security
Customize the search collection for secured portal pages
Reset the default search collection
Related:
User roles and access
Indexing web content