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

Searching Sites

You use Portal Search to search for text displayed in Web sites created by IBM^® Lotus Web Content Management™.

• Create a search collection in Portal Search and then make a site searchable.
• To search Web sites viewed using a rendering portlet, you can use a search form containing a search element, or use either the Search Center, or a Search and Browse portlet.
• To search Web sites viewed using the Web content servlet, use a search form containing a search element.

• Configuring a site to be searchable
  To search a site first create a search collection and then enable a site to be searchable.
• Creating a search form
  To create a search form create both a search query using an HTML element, and a search result using a search component.
• Configuring the Search and Browse portlet to search for Web content
  You can use the Search and Browse portlet to search for Web content by adding a Web content search collection to the configuration of a new Search and Browse portlet.
• Configuring Search Center to search for Web content
  You can use the Search Center to search for Web content by adding a Web content search collection to the Search Center.