Enable anonymous users to search public pages of the portal
To enable anonymous users (unauthenticated users) to search public pages...
- Put the Search Center portlet on a public page.
- Give the Anonymous Portal User group access permission to the Search portlet that you make available to anonymous users, and to the page on which that portlet is.
To do this, we can use the User and Group Permissions portlet, the Resource Permissions portlet, or the Manage Portlets and Manage Pages portlets.
- Give the Anonymous Portal User group access to the Search collections.
To do this, use the User and Group Permissions portlet or the Resource Permissions portlet. From the list of Resource Types, select PSE Sources, then select the required search collections that you make available to public users, and assign the Anonymous Portal User access to those search collections.
- Optional: Create a custom search scope, if you did not create one before already.
We can edit our own custom scopes, but we cannot modify the default search scopes to give anonymous users access.
- Give the Anonymous Portal User group access to the Search scope:
- Click Administration > Manage Search > Search Scopes.
- Locate the scope you want the anonymous user to use and click Edit Search Scope.
- Click Yes to enable the option Visible to Anonymous Users.
- Enable public sessions by setting the parameter public.session to true in the portal Navigator Service.
The Search Center portlet needs a valid session for its run time, and by default, sessions are not enabled on anonymous pages in the portal. By default, sessions are only created when a user authenticates and logs in to the portal.
- Restart both WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal for the changes to take effect.
Parent: Administer Portal Search
Related:
Manage and administer Portal Search
Set service configuration properties
Related reference:
Portal configuration services