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Administer Portal Search


Manage Search portlet sections:

Search Services Manage search services.
Search Collections Manage search collections and their content sources.
Search Scopes Manage search scopes and custom links to Web search locations.

To enable Portal Search...

  1. Create search services.

    We can use the default search services provided with portal, or we 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. Configure the search portlets for various environments and requirements, for example, for local or remote search service, or for search on anonymous pages.

  4. Create a search collection and define its properties.

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

  6. Migrate search collections

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

We can perform most of the configuration tasks for Portal Search using the administration portlet Manage Search. Alternatively, we can administer Portal Search using the WAS admin console and resource providers in XML format.

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


Migrate search collections

Starting with WebSphere Portal V6.1 seedlist URL syntax has changed to seedlist format 1.0. Older search collections created before portal V 6.1 use seedlist format 0.9 and cannot be reused or migrated to the new format. The only seedlist format 0.9 source that we can use is WCM v6.1.0.3 and earlier versions that have not been upgraded to the 1.0 format. Starting with WebSphere Portal v7 JCR was added as 1.0 seedlist format. Be sure that you index all content again before using seedlist format 1.0.


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Parent: Portal Search
Related: Set up search collections
Use the search seedlist 1.0 format