Search on secured portal sites and pages
For search on a secured local portal site Portal Search provides a pre-configured search collection. To set up your own search collection for searching the portal site, we need to apply special security considerations. Create a dedicated crawler user ID and give that user ID access permission to the portlets and portal pages that you want to be available for search by users. This is the sum of all the access permissions to all the portal resources combined that the users have who will search the portal site.
IWWCM documents can be searched by portal users, as they are secured by Portal Access Control. Users can search documents to which they have the required access permissions on sites that have been search enabled.
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.
Set the preferred language of the portal site crawler user ID to match the language of the portal site search collection that it crawls.
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Security considerations