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In IBM Lotus Connections 2.5, the search capability provides a point for performing full text and tag searches across all the deployed Lotus Connections features. Search is a required application for all Lotus Connections features, and it must be running to prevent unexpected behaviors in the other features.
Lotus Connections search is based on multifaceted search technology and uses related people, related dates, related tags, and source feature facets. This information enables users to drill down into specific facets to find the content that they want without having to page through large numbers of results.
During the indexing process, bookmarks created in the Activities, Communities, and Bookmarks features are indexed into the same document, and the details of the link, such as its tags, are used to supplement the document in the index. For example, a blog posting that was bookmarked in the Bookmarks feature has facets for both Bookmarks and Blogs. Search results in Lotus Connections are based on the following facets:
These facets are calculated at indexing time for optimum performance at search time.
Facet Description Date The set of dates associated with the search results. This facet enables users to filter search results first by year, and then by year and month.
Tags The complete set of tags used for the full text result set, including tags associated with bookmarks created in the Bookmarks, Activities, and Communities features. Related people The complete set of users associated with the full text result set. This facet includes associations mined from bookmarked content in Bookmarks, Activities, and Communities. Related people also include shared authors on blogs and people who have commented on blogs. Source component The Lotus Connections feature from which the results were retrieved. These facets are calculated at indexing time for optimum performance at search time.
Users can filter results by source by using the tabs at the top of the Search Results page
- Accessing the search configuration environment
You need to initialize the search configuration environment to be able to run the SearchCellConfig and SearchService MBean commands.- Index settings
Indexing is automatically configured in IBM Lotus Connections. However, when setting up indexing for your environment, you might need to perform additional configuration tasks.- Manage the index
The search feature uses a Lucene 2.4.0 index, supplemented by social facet information. By default, this location is mapped to an IBM Websphere Application Server variable, SEARCH_INDEX_DIR. The value of this variable is set to <CONNECTIONS_DATA_DIRECTORY>/search/index by default.- Indexing and search statistics
Display a standard set of statistics related to the search feature.- Searchable content
When you perform a search using a keyword, different types of information are searchable for each feature in the default content field in the search index documents.- My Content searches
When users choose to search only the content that is related to them, the behavior of the My Content search feature varies across each of the different features.
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