Portal Search provides a default portal site search collection.
Default configuration for searching on your own local portal site
Before users can search the portal site collection, perform the following tasks...
- Set the crawler user ID (Optional):
- Define the crawler user ID by using the Manage Users and Groups portlet.
- Set the preferred language of the portal site crawler user ID to match the language of the portal site search collection.
- Edit the portal site collection content source and fill in the crawler user ID and its password. To do this...
- Click...
Main Menu | Administration | Search Administration | Manage Search | Search Collections
- In the search collection list, click the Portal Content search collection.
- Click the Edit icon for the Portal Content Source.
- Under the General Parameters tab, type the crawler user ID and its password into the appropriate fields and click OK.
- Start the initial crawl.
Click the Start Crawler icon for the content source.
- Configure regular crawls.
To set regular crawls on the portal site content source, perform either of the following tasks...
- Enable the default scheduler...
- From the Manage Search page, for the content source, click the icon...
View Content Source Schedulers
- Click Disabled.
Manage Search changes the scheduler to Enabled and displays a confirmation message.
- Set up your own scheduler...
- Click the Edit icon for the content source.
- Select the Schedulers tab.
- Configure your own schedule as required.
Only the main panels of the portlets on the portal pages are indexed and can be searched. The crawler does not follow links that are specified within a portlet.
By default, items in the result lists from portal site searches provide no summary information. If end users are using the Search and Browse portlet they can refer to the information given under Description: for information about the search result list item.
To have the summary information added, configure the portlet with the summary parameter enabled as follows:
PortalCollectionSummarizer=onWhen you crawl a portal site, be aware of...
Set the preferred language of the crawler user ID to match the language of the search collection that it crawls.
The portal site search collection is created when an administrator navigates to the Manage Search portlet. However, start the crawl for users to be able to search the portal site.
Depending on the portal configuration and environment and possible customization, you might need to reset the portal site search collection.
If the users search the portal site search collection on a secured portal site, refer to the additional information under Enabling search on a secured portal site with the default configuration.
When users search a portal site, they can access portal pages of two types:
- Public or anonymous portal pages.
These are pages that users can view without authentication by user ID and password. The crawler can crawl public pages on the portal site on which it resides, or on a remote portal.
- Secured portal pages
These are pages that users can only view if they authenticate themselves to the portal by logging in to the portal with a user ID and password.
We can crawl, index, and search secured portal pages only on the local portal installation. For security reasons, we cannot crawl secured pages of one portal site from another portal site.
If you customize search on the portal site, you might find useful information under Configuring the default location for search collections and Creating or resetting the portal site collection.
If the portal site is multilingual and the users use different languages to search the portal, refer to Crawling and searching a multilingual portal site.
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Search your own local portal site