Manage search scopes and custom links

 

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We can define search scopes to limit search results to specific content locations and specific document types.

The portal is shipped with three scopes...

All sources

Includes documents with all features from all content sources in the search by a user.

Managed Web Content

Restricts search results to sites created by Web Content Management.

Library Documents

Restricts search results to documents available in Portal Document Management libraries.

We can create your own custom search scopes and specify which search locations or content sources they cover.

We can add Custom Links with Web link shortcuts to search locations. This includes links to external Web locations. For example, we can enable users to do direct searches to popular Web search engines, such as Google or Yahoo!

Users can select the scopes and custom links from a selection menu provided with the search box in the theme and with the Search Center portlet.

We can add icons for the scopes and custom links. Users will see these icons in the pull-down selection list of scopes with the Search box and the Search Center.

To work with search scopes and custom links, select...

Launch | Main Menu | Administration | Search Administration | Manage Search | Search Scopes

Portal Search displays the Search Scopes panel. It lists the search scopes and the custom links, shows their status and related information. We can perform tasks on the scopes and custom links.

If you delete a content source, then the documents that were collected from this content source will remain available for search by users under all scopes which included the content source before it was deleted. These documents will be available until their expiration time ends. This expiration time can be specified under...

Links expire after (days):

...under General Parameters when you created the content source.

 

Parent topic:

Set up search collections

 

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