Searching Sites

You use Portal Search to search for text displayed in Web sites created by IBM^® Lotus Web Content Management™.

To search for text displayed in a Web site you must do the following:

Create a search collection in Portal Search and then make a site searchable.
To search Web sites viewed using a rendering portlet, you can use a search form containing a search element, or use either the Search Center, or a Search and Browse portlet.
To search Web sites viewed using the Web content servlet, you must use a search form containing a search element.

Configuring a site to be searchable
To search a site you must first create a search collection and then enable a site to be searchable.
Creating a search form
To create a search form you must create both a search query using an HTML element, and a search result using a search component.
Configuring the Search and Browse portlet to search for Web content
You can use the Search and Browse portlet to search for Web content by adding a Web content search collection to the configuration of a new Search and Browse portlet.
Configuring Search Center to search for Web content
You can use the Search Center to search for Web content by adding a Web content search collection to the Search Center.

Parent topic: Developing a Web content system