Search on secured portal sites and pages and content management items
For search on a secured local portal site, Portal Search provides a pre-configured search collection. You can also set up own search collection for searching the portal site.
To set up own search collection for searching the portal site, you need to apply special security considerations. You 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. For more detailed information about this refer to the topic about Customizing search collection for secured portal pages.
Notes:
- IBMWeb Content Manager 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. For details about content security refer to User roles and access. For details about configuring Portal Search on Web Content Manager items refer to Indexing web content.
- You can crawl, index, and search secured portal pages. Use post-filtering or pre-post-filtering mode for local portal installations and pre-filtering mode for both local and remote portal installations. For security reasons only pre-filtering mode allows crawling and searching of secured pages of one portal site from another portal site. For more detailed explanation refer to the topic about Search service configuration parameters.
- Set the preferred language of the portal site crawler user ID to match the language of the portal site search collection that it crawls. If you do this after you started a crawl on the portal site search collection, you need to reset the portal site collection. Refer to the topic about Creating or resetting the portal site collection.
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Security considerations
Related tasks
Search on Portal Search collections and other content sources
Encrypting sensitive data
Customize search collection for secured portal pages
Create or resetting the portal site collection