Configure the Search Center portlet
The Search Center is installed and ready to use in a default portal installation. It is available to authenticated users through the search box in the portal theme header action bar. Users can use the Search Center for basic searches.
The Search Center no longer has tabs but instead has scopes that appear in Search Center drop-down selection list.
For details about how to include a document library for search by the Search Center, refer to Searching for a document library.
The Search Center provides scopes for users to select different sources for the search. For search collections provided by Portal Search we can configure the scopes in the two following ways:
- Each individual search collection is available through its own selection option in the scope pull-down menu.
- All search collections are available through the All Sources selection option in the pull-down menu.
For more information about search scopes and how to configure them refer to Manage search scopes and custom links.
If the users use external search services to perform searches in different languages, refer toUsing the Search Center with external search services with different languages.
Parent topic:
Administering Portal Search