Use the search seedlist 1.0 format
By default Portal Search is configured to support the search seedlist 1.0 format. Using the seedlist 1.0 format makes it possible to leverage the Web content page type to render content found in the search results on the corresponding Web content page. You can also include custom metadata fields from a Web content item that will appear in the search seedlist but not in the HTML source.
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.
Search seedlist 1.0 can make access control information available in a way that makes pre-filtering of contents possible. Pre-filtering provides the fastest filtering approach because it takes place in the search index level. An additional advantage of pre-filtering is that remote secured content sources can be searched from the portal.
The filtering mode is defined as part of the search service configuration parameters.
- Enable support for search seedlist 1.0
To use Portal Search to crawl your Web content and leverage features like Web content pages enable seedlist 1.0 support for the Portal Search crawler.
- Use the custom metadata field search support
With the search seedlist 1.0 support, custom metadata fields specified on content items are added to the search seedlist as metadata information, without requiring the metadata to appear in the HTML source for the content items.
- Seedlist 1.0 REST service API
The IBM Lotus Web Content Management API for retrieving application content through a seedlist is based on the REST architecture style. To obtain seedlist content, third party crawlers or administrator applications only need to construct and send HTTP requests to the application servlet. With seedlist format 1.0, the syntax of the seedlist URL has changed
Parent topic:
Crawl Web content with search seedlists
Related tasks
Administer Portal Search