Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1 Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux,Windows

Searching across Lotus Quickr servers

Set up search services for remote Lotus Quickr servers, then make the services available to Portal Search so that users can search across content on all the servers.

To enable users to search content from Lotus Quickr servers, create a new search service on the Portal server that retrieves search information from the remote Lotus Quickr servers. This search service discovers search scopes or search collections on the Lotus Quickr servers, and represents them as new scope locations on the Portal server. Using these new locations, it is possible to define new scopes, which will allow users to search seamlessly across local Portal and remote Lotus Quickr content.

Create a new search service as follows:

1. Add a new content search service to the local portal server where the search will be initiated.

   1. From the main portal menu, click Administration > Manage Search.
   2. In the Manage Search portlet, click Search Services.
   3. Click New Search Service.
   4. Click the drop-down list under Search service implementation, then click Remote Content Server Search Service Type.
2. 2. Modify the new Search Service configuration by setting the following parameters, if required. Only the RestServiceHost parameter is required. By default, the service work with scopes, and the remote Lotus Quickr server is excluded from the All Sources scope.

   Parameter	Value	Description
   RestServiceHost	example: yourserver.yourcompany.com	The host name of the remote Lotus Quickr server. This parameter is required.
   RequestLocationType	/scopes for discovering scopes on the remote Lotus Quickr server (default) /indexes for discovering indexes (collections) on the remote Lotus Quickr server	Represents part of the URL path from the REST Search request for retrieving all available locations on the Lotus Quickr server.
   LocationParam	scope if using a scope identifier (default) index if using a collection identifier	Represents the location parameter name for the REST Search request against the Lotus Quickr server..
   DefaultCollectionName	example: DefaultRemoteContentServerCollection	The name of the collection which represents the remote Lotus Quickr search service.
   IgnoreAllSourcesSearch	True if the Lotus Quickr results will not be included in the All Sources scope (default) False if the Lotus Quickr results need to be included in the All Sources scope	Defines whether the Lotus Quickr search service will participate in the All Sources scope search.

3. Click OK.
4. 4. Check that a new collection was generated for the new service with the name as specified in the parameter DefaultCollectionName. This is a virtual collection that represents the remote Lotus Quickr content.

1. Click Administration > Manage Search.
2. Click Search Scopes.
3. Click New Scope.
4. When creating the new scope, click Select Locations. In the list of locations look for the Remote Content Server Search Service, which contains the Lotus Quickr scope or index, as defined by the RequestLocationType parameter that was defined in the search service.
5. Select the scope or index, or select multiple locations of the scope or index. Click OK.Note: Selecting multiple locations from the same server will result in multiple calls to the remote server, which can cause performance degradation.