I would like to know whether Sun Portal 7 has the capability to search from local files residing on the server OS such as (docs, html, pdfs).
I know it can search from a internet based search engine like google and also local databases.
Thanking you,
Farhan Ahmed.
Collaboration Team Lead,
Pakistan.
Hi CRabel,
I am restating my query as follows:
We need to give our portal users a search facility from which they can search the documents (html,docs,pdf - residing in /docroot of appserver on the filesystem).
The Portal Search engine only search in the communities (i.e. underlying derby database). Could it be configure for our above mentioned /docroot/files.
Could you please specify what do you mean by file:// notation. Where it can be mentioned.
Regards,
Farhan Ahmed.
Collaboration Team Lead.
Pakistan.
Ok.
Some documentation for search engine can be found here:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5022/6n74qhk0j?a=view
In short:
To configure the portal search engine login to psconsole and go to search servers -> Your_Instance -> Sites and create a new one with a link to your content. (Choose internal DB for a first tests, later you want to create a dedicated db) Then start the robot.
After that you can check what was indexed by clicking on Databases -> check default DB -> "Manage Resource Descriptions". It should show several descriptors.
Then you have to create a channel of type "SearchProvider" and add it to the container your users get.
hth Chris
