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.

To create or edit a portal search service...

1. Click Administration > Search Administration > Manage Search. Portal displays the Manage Search portlet.

2. Click Search Services. Manage Search displays the Search Services panel.

3. To create a new search service, click the New Search service button. To modify an existing search service, click the Edit icon for that search service. Manage Search lists the parameter key and value pairs for the search service.

Set or edit the parameter values depending on your requirements and configuration. Notes for configuring a search service:

1. The values that you set for parameters of a portal search service apply to that search service and all its collections. They do not affect other search services of the portal or their search collections.

2. Some configuration parameters are available for both the search services and for the Search and Browse portlet. If you configure a copy of the Search and Browse portlet for search on collections under a particular search service, then set the same value for these shared parameters. For details about this refer to Configure the Search and Browse portlet for end users and Configuration parameters for the Search and Browse portlet.

3. If you modify a search service parameter that affects search collections, this modification will apply only to newly created search collections created in the search service. Existing search collections will not be affected by the updated parameter value.

4. Portal Search provides only one default Content Model search service.

   You cannot modify this Content Model search service, or create additional Content Model search services, or create additional search collections for the default Content Model search service.

5. The search administration portlet Manage Search lists the Default Portal Search Service and its collection Portal Content or other collections in the default portal language and not in the language that the user has selected as preferred language for the portal or set in the browser.

   For example, if the portal default language is set to English and the user has selected German as the preferred portal language or has set the browser language to German, the Default Portal Search Service and its collections show in English.

For more detailed steps about how to manage search services refer to the Manage Search portlet help. For a list of the search service parameters and possible values refer to Search service configuration parameters.

To create a search service for remote Portal Search, refer to Configure a remote search service.

Parent topic:

Administer Portal Search

Related tasks

Configure the Search and Browse portlet for end users
Configure a remote search service

Related reference

Configuration parameters for the Search and Browse portlet
Search service configuration parameters

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