Managing 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.

About this task

To create or edit a portal search service, proceed as follows:

Procedure

  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. If you want to create a new search service, click the New Search Service button. If you want 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.

Results

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. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. SOAP support for remote search services has been deprecated with WebSphere® Portal Version 8.0.
  5. If you delete a search service, the portal does not delete the search collections that are related to this search service. Delete the search collections by using the Manage Search administration portlet. If you delete the default search service, it is re-created new when you restart the portal.

What to do next

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.

If you want to create a search service for remote Portal Search, refer to Configuring a remote search service.