Crawl a multilingual portal site

If the portal site is multilingual and the users use different languages to search the portal, we set up multiple search collections under one scope...

1. Before starting creating search collections, verify the parameter MULTILINGUAL_COLLECTION_ENABLED is set to false for the search service. If the parameter has not been set, add it and set it to false .

2. Create a separate crawler user ID for each language that your users might use for search. Set the language preference for each user ID to a different one of required languages.

3. Create a portal content search collection for each language the users might use. Set that language for the collection by selecting it from the pull-down list under Specify Collection Language.

4. Create a single content source for each of these collections. For each content source, select the crawler user ID created before so the language preference setting matches the language of the collection to which each content source belongs.

5. For each content source, append &Locale=locale_name to the content source URL. For example, for Spanish append &Locale=es .

6. Populate the collections by starting crawls on them. For load and performance reasons, run the crawls one after another rather than all at the same time. Refer to the topic about Tips for Portal Search crawls.

7. Create a scope, and add all collections created. We can name this scope My preferred language.

Results

The Search Center portlet will return results from the collection in the user's preferred language only.

Parent Search the local portal

Related reference:

Tips for using Portal Search
Tips for Portal Search crawls