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

Crawling a multilingual portal site

This topic describes how you set up search on a multilingual portal for users with different language preferences.

If your portal site is multilingual and your users use different languages to search your portal, you set up multiple search collections under one scope. Proceed as follows:

1. 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 the required languages.
2. Create a portal content search collection for each language that your users might use. Set that language for the collection by selecting it from the pull-down list under Specify Collection Language.
3. Create a single content source for each of these collections. For each content source, select the crawler user ID that you created before so that the language preference setting matches the language of the collection to which each content source belongs.
4. 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 Memory required for crawls and the Time required for crawls and imports and availability of documents.
5. Create a scope, and add all collections that you created above. You can name this scope My preferred language.

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

For a solution with lower administration overhead and performance impact, create a single search collection with multilingual portal content. When you create that collection, select language setting Unspecified case 5. Proceed as described above, but combine all language specific content sources under that single search collection.