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

Managing search services

This topic gives an overview of how you manage the portal search services. This includes creating a new search service or editing an existing search service.

To create or edit a portal search service, proceed as follows:

1. Click Launch Main Menu > Administration > Search Administration > Manage Search. Portal displays the Manage Search portlet.
2. Click Search Services. Manage Search displays the Search Services panel.
3. If you want to create a new search service, click the New Search service button. If you want to modify an existing search service, click the Edit icon for that search service. Manage Search lists the parameter key and value pairs for the search service.

1. The values that you set for parameters of a portal search service apply to that search service and all its collections. They do not affect other search services of the portal or their search collections.
2. Some configuration parameters are available for both the search services and for the Search and Browse portlet. If you configure a copy of the Search and Browse portlet for search on collections under a particular search service, then you need to set the same value for these shared parameters. For details about this refer to Search and Browse portlet.">Configuring the Search and Browse portlet for end users and Search and Browse end user portlet.">Configuration parameters for the Search and Browse portlet.
3. If you modify a search service parameter that affects search collections, this modification will apply only to newly created search collections created in the search service. Existing search collections will not be affected by the updated parameter value.
4. Portal Search provides only one default Content Model search service. You cannot modify this Content Model search service, or create additional Content Model search services, or create additional search collections for the default Content Model search service.

For more detailed steps about how to manage search services refer to the Manage Search portlet help. For a list of the search service parameters and possible values refer to Search service configuration parameters.

If you want to create a search service for remote Portal Search, refer to remote search service for Portal Search.">Configuring a remote search service.