Create or reset the portal site collection

 

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Overview

The portal site default search collection is created the first time an administrator navigates to the search administration portlet Manage Search.

Before performing a portal database transfer, for example, from Cloudscape to DB2, create the portal site collection by navigating to the Manage Search portlet. Otherwise the portal site collection will not be available after the database transfer.

Search collections cannot be modified. To change them, recreate them.

• To have summaries created for the documents during a crawl, while recreating the portal site search collection, select...

  Summarizer | Automatic

  

• To restrict the searchable Web space of the portal site, create a crawler user ID with limited access rights to the page set. Then create the portal site collection again.

  When creating the portal site content source, specify new crawler user ID and password instead of the default user ID wpsadmin.

• Change the default directory location for search collections.

• Change the default language.

• Set preferred language

• If you initiated the portal site collection before configuring the Manage Search portlet for remote search in a cluster.

  In this case the default portal site search collection is only available on the primary node of the cluster and not on the remote server. After you recreate the portal site collection, it will be available for search on all nodes of the cluster.

• If the file path length for search collections exceeds its limit of 118 characters, the collection cannot be created. In this case specify a shorter value for the parameter...

  DefaultCollectionsDirectory

  This file path length problem can occur particularly when the portal site collection is created under UNIX operating systems.

In such a scenario, after completing required reconfiguration tasks, recreate the portal site collection...

1. Navigate to the Manage Search portlet...

   Launch | Main Menu | Administration | Search Administration | Manage Search | Search Collections

   

2. Delete the Portal Content search collection by clicking the appropriate Delete icon and confirming the deletion.

3. Return to the main Manage Search panel by clicking the Manage Search link in the breadcrumb trail at the top of the portlet.

4. Click Search Services.

5. Click the Edit icon for the...

   Default Portal Search Service

   If you created a new search service for the portal site search collection, click the Edit icon for that search service.

6. Set the value for the parameter...

   PortalCollectionForceCreate

   ...to On.

   This triggers a new crawl on the portal site the next time an administrator navigates to the Manage Search portlet.

7. Click OK to save the updates. Manage Search returns to the Search Services panel.

8. Navigate to the Manage Search portlet by clicking...

   Main Menu | Administration | Search Administration | Manage Search

Portal Search performs a new crawl on the portal site search collection and resets the value of PortalCollectionForceCreate to Off.

 

Parent topic:

Search your own local portal site

 

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