Administer Portal Search

You can administer and configure many details for Portal Search.

Before you start administering Portal Search, review the topic about Planning and Preparing for Portal Search. Manage Search is the Portal Search administration portlet. It has three main sections:

• Search Services: Use this section to manage search services.

• Search Collections: Use this section to manage search collections and their content sources.

• Search Scopes: Use this section to manage search scopes and custom links to Web search locations.

In order to enable Portal Search and make documents available for search by users, you perform administrative tasks such as the following:

1. Create search services. You can use the default search services provided with portal, or you can create additional search services, for example, for setting up remote search or search in a portal cluster.

2. Configure Portal Search. You do this by configuring the search service.

3. Optional: Install the Search and Browse end user portlet to allow for advanced searches by users. For details refer to the topic about Configuring the Search and Browse portlet for end users.

4. Configure the search portlets for various environments and requirements, for example, for local or remote search service, or for search on use on anonymous pages.

5. Manage Portal Search for users:

   1. Create a search collection and define its properties, thereby allowing for fast and efficient searches.

   2. Create one or more content sources for that collection and have them crawled.

   3. Optional: Determine and select which of the documents in the collection will or will not be available for search by users.

   For more details about these tasks refer to the topic about Setting up search collections.Migrating search collections: The syntax of the seedlist URL has changed with seedlist format 1.0. Older search collections created using seedlist format 0.9 cannot be reused or migrated to the new format. Be sure that you index all content again before using seedlist format 1.0.

Portal Search is preconfigured with a search service, a portal site search collection, and scopes. You can add and remove search services, collections, and scopes.

You can perform most of the configuration tasks for Portal Search by using the administration portlet Manage Search. By alternative, you can also administer Portal Search by using the administrative console and using resource providers in XML format.

All search collections are available by the All Sources selection option of the Search Center portlet.

• Manage search services

  Get an overview of how you manage the portal search services. This includes creating a new search service or editing an existing search service.

• Search service configuration parameters

  Learn about the portal search service parameters and possible values.

• Configure a remote search service

  Configure a remote search service for Portal Search.

• Backup and recovery of search collections configuration

  The backup and recovery function in Portal Search automatically detects a corrupted search collection configuration or index and recovers the collection information from the backup files.

• Configure the default location for search collections

  You can modify the default directory location under which search collections are created on a per search service basis. View some related information.

• Configure the Search Center portlet

  Get an overview of how you configure the Search Center.

• Customize the Search Center

  Customize the Search Center by adding additional portlets, such as external search results or recommended links. The external search results portlet displays search results from third-party external search engines such as Yahoo and Google. Using the recommended links portlet, display search results from a collection of predefined links with predefined keywords.

  You can also configure the All Sources scope or replace it with a customized scope.

• Configure the Search and Browse portlet for end users

  Get an overview of how you configure the Search and Browse portlet.

• Enable anonymous users to search public pages of the portal

  You can enable anonymous users (sometimes also called unauthenticated users) to search public pages of the portal by using a portal search portlet.

• Configure custom portal themes to include the search box

  Enable the portal users to use the Portal Search box and Search portlet in your own custom theme.

• Customize your own search portlet helps

  Modify or replace the portlet helps for the Portal Search portlets.

Parent topic:

Portal Search

Related concepts

Set up search collections

Related tasks

Configure the Search and Browse portlet for end users
Use the search seedlist 1.0 format

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