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HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy content]
Configuring
Run the following tasks after you install and deploy HCL Digital Experience. They address tasks that are typically run one time and have a global effect. Some configuration changes are made more frequently or do not have a global effect. These tasks are addressed in the Administering section.
Search
You use Digital Experience Portal Search to search for text that is displayed in websites that are created by HCL Web Content Manager and additional web sources integrated to your Digital Experience platform.
HCL Digital Experience Portal Search
Use HCL Digital Experience Portal Search to facilitate indexing content sources and searching for information. You can administer search services, search collections, and search scopes, as well as enhance the search experience of your portal site with the portal search portlets. Refer to the topics below for additional information.
Administering Portal Search
You can administer and configure many details for Portal Search.
Configuring the Search Center portlet
Get an overview of how you configure the Search Center.

HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy content]
- Overview
  HCL Digital Experience provides a single access point to web content and applications, while it delivers differentiated, personalized experiences for each user across multiple touchpoints, such as web, mobile, hybrid mobile/web applications, and more.
- Supported migration paths
  Migration is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.
- Supported installation and upgrade paths
  Installation and upgrade is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.
- Getting the software
  New and existing users need to register at the HCL Software License Portal and download their entitled HCL Digital Experience package(s).
- Creating your website
  Review the following topics to understand how to create your website using the latest HCL Digital Experience.
- Installing HCL Digital Experience
  Review the planning information on HCL Digital Experience, then select your operating system and installation pattern that most reflects your business needs.
- Configuring
  Run the following tasks after you install and deploy HCL Digital Experience. They address tasks that are typically run one time and have a global effect. Some configuration changes are made more frequently or do not have a global effect. These tasks are addressed in the Administering section.
  - Configuration Wizard
    Use the Configuration Wizard to set up stand-alone servers and new deployments, create clusters, migrate and update to new versions, and add new capabilities to existing deployments.
  - Setting up a stand-alone server
    Use the Configuration Wizard to set up a stand-alone server. A stand-alone server is useful for different environments, such as a content authoring environment, test environment, and more.
  - Setting up a cluster
    Use the Configuration Wizard to set up either a dynamic or static horizontal cluster.
  - Tune your environment
    HCL Digital Experience is not tuned for a production environment by default. Complete the steps in the Performance Tuning Guide to optimize performance.
  - Web servers
    HCL Digital Experience uses the internal HTTP transport within IBM WebSphere Application Server to handle requests. However, because WebSphere Application Server also supports the use of an external web server, you can access HCL Portal from your web server. You can use a local web server on the same server as HCL Portal or you can use a remote web server on a different server. A remote web server is typical for a production environment or other high-traffic configuration and is also typically placed in DMZ outside a firewall to protect portal ports.
  - HCL Portal
    First, finish your HCL Digital Experience deployment with the Configuration Wizard. Then, you can configure your environment further. For example, you can tune your servers to improve performance. You can change the default context root.
  - HCL Web Content Manager
    Set up a content server by installing HCL Web Content Manager in various deployments to provide robust and flexible environments for web content development and delivery. After you install the content server, more configuration steps must be completed according to the role that the server plays in your web content environment.
  - Syndication
    Use syndication to replicate web content library data from one server to another server. Syndication is based on a syndicator and subscriber relationship. The syndicator has the current data. The subscriber received the current data from the syndicator.
  - Database Management Systems
    Configure the connection between HCL Digital Experience and your database management system. The Database Transfer configuration option in the Configuration Wizard assigns users and permissions, creates databases, obtains support for database collation, and transfers your database.
  - User registry
    User information is stored in your user registry. You can enable LDAP referrals, configure HCL Digital Experience to use dynamic groups, update your user registry, or delete your user registry configurations.
  - Search
    You use Digital Experience Portal Search to search for text that is displayed in websites that are created by HCL Web Content Manager and additional web sources integrated to your Digital Experience platform.
    - HCL Digital Experience Portal Search
      Use HCL Digital Experience Portal Search to facilitate indexing content sources and searching for information. You can administer search services, search collections, and search scopes, as well as enhance the search experience of your portal site with the portal search portlets. Refer to the topics below for additional information.
      - Portlets for working with Search
        Get an overview of the portal search portlets.
      - Administering Portal Search
        You can administer and configure many details for Portal Search.
        Managing search services
        Get an overview of how you manage the portal search services. This task includes creating a new search service or editing an existing search service.
        Search service configuration parameters
        Learn about the portal search service parameters and possible values.
        Configuring the default location for search collections
        You can modify the default directory location under which search collections are created on a per search service basis. View some related information.
        Configuring the Search Center portlet
        Get an overview of how you configure the Search Center.
        Configuring search for multilingual sites
        By default, the Search Center uses the preferred language of the user to analyze search terms and to refine the search results. Search results in different languages are not displayed. You can enable users to search for terms in a language other than their preferred language.
        Configuring search scopes for the Search Center portlet
        The Search Center provides scopes for users to select different sources for the search. A search scope is a means of filtering the search request to a predefined set of content or content source.
        Configuring search by metadata for the Search Center portlet
        You can configure the Search Center so that users can refine their search by metadata.
        Replacing the search administrator user ID
        If you changed the portal administrator user ID or password, you need to update the search administrator user ID to match the same values.
        Customizing the Search Center
        Customize the Search Center by adding, removing and configuring additional portlets, such as External Search Results or Recommended Links. The external search results portlet displays search results from third-party external search engines such as Yahoo and Google. Using the recommended links portlet, display search results from a collection of predefined links with predefined keywords. You can also configure the All Sources scope or replace it with a customized scope.
        Using the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console to administer Portal Search
        You can administer Portal Search by using the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console and using resource providers in XML format.
        Setting up search collections
        View information on setting up search collections for search by users. This also includes creating content sources and managing search scopes and custom links.
        Searching and crawling Portal and other sites
        You can configure your local Portal site and crawl remote Portal sites so that they are searchable by users. Run crawlers against other external websites to make them searchable by local portal users.
      - Hints and tips for using Portal Search
        View some useful tips for using Portal Search.
      - The portal site search collection fails
        Creating the portal site search collection can fail due to a file path length restriction.
      - Portal Search trace and log files
        Portal Search provides logging and tracing so that you can get additional information for resolving possible problems.
    - Searching pages
      By selecting a search type in Manage Pages, you can quickly locate and work with pages, labels, or URLs.
    - Search Center
      Use the Search Center to search for documents.
    - Searching for tagged content
      Users can search the tag space by using the browser search box.
    - Planning and preparing for Portal Search
      Learn about some planning considerations and first steps that you need to apply before working with Portal Search.
    - Indexing web content
      To search for web content, your content must first be indexed by the HCL Portal search engine. When the content is indexed, you can run searches by using the search center or by using a search component. If you search for documents in the WebSphere Portal search center, be aware that you see search results for published documents only. Unpublished pending changes in a project are not included in the results.
    - Configuring Web Content Manager search options
      You can edit the following search options to manage how the search service works with Web Content Manager search forms.
    - 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.
    - Language and region support in Portal Search
      Depending on your portal environment and your users, you might want to make multilingual content available and searchable in your portal.
    - Crawling web content with search seedlists
      Portal Search supports the use of seedlists to make crawling websites and their metadata more efficient and to provide content owners fine-grained control over how content and metadata are crawled. You can configure the portal to use seedlist support when crawling content generated with HCL Web Content Manager.
    - Searching your local portal
      View information on setting up your local portal for your users to search.
    - Configuring your portal site for search by internet search engines
      You can enable your portal site for search by using search services such as Google or Yahoo! Search on your portal site by external search services works for public portal pages only, that is, for pages that users can access without a user ID and password.
    - Enabling anonymous users to search public pages of your portal
      You can enable anonymous users (sometimes also called unauthenticated users) to search public pages of your portal by using the portal Search Center portlet. Search by anonymous users works only on public pages of your portal, as the users are not logged in to your portal.
    - Configuring your custom portal themes to include the search box
      Enable your portal users to use the Portal Search box and Search portlet in your own custom theme.
    - Redirecting search requests from a custom search form to the Search Center
      If you plan to develop a custom search form, you might want to redirect search requests issued by the search form to the Search Center.
    - Remote search service
      You can configure the search portlets for local operation, or you can configure them for remote search service. Depending on your configuration, remote search service might have performance benefits by offloading and balancing system load.
    - Configuring search in a cluster
      HCL Digital Experience provides two distinct search capabilities. You can use both types of search capabilities in a clustered environment.
    - Configuring search in a portal farm
      HCL Digital Experience provides two distinct search capabilities. You can use both types of search capabilities in a portal farm environment.
    - Configuring search collections for a virtual portal
      Configuring JCR search collections for a virtual portal might require additional administration, depending on how you set up the virtual portal.
  - Document Conversion Services
    Document Conversion Services are used when you work with HCL Web Content Manager authoring, previewing, and search.
  - Setting up a remote spell checker
    Using a local spell checker is not supported. You cannot run spell checker on 64-bit systems. Instead, you must install and configure spell checker on a remote application server and access that server from the local HCL Portal server.
  - HCL Connections
    HCL Connections portlets give the HCL Digital Experience users access to more collaboration and social networking features such as activities, blogs, and bookmarks.
  - Reference: Configuration properties
    For your convenience, the properties files that are used to configure HCL Digital Experience are included in the product documentation. Information that is specified in the properties files is used to configure databases, LDAP integration, security, including external security managers, and more.
- Backup and restore
  Backup and recovery of data files and databases is an essential operation for any business system, particularly for data and applications that run in production environments. Create and follow a plan for backing up and recovering data on all tiers of your HCL Digital Experience deployment. IBM Installation Manager must also be included in backup and recovery planning. If you back up the HCL Portal file structure and then install a fix pack, your HCL Digital Experience and IBM Installation Manager become out of sync after you restore the HCL Portal file system. This condition is not recoverable.
- Migrating
  Successful migration requires significant planning and preparation, understanding the tools that are involved, and careful execution of the appropriate steps in the order provided.
- Integrating
  Integrate HCL Digital Experience with software such as HCL Sametime to enable your users to collaborate more easily. You can also use the unified task list portlet to integrate HCL with your backend business process software, such as IBM Process Server.
- Administering
  Use the administration tools that are provided with the HCL Digital Experience to do various day-to-day administration tasks.
- Securing
  Security tasks include setting up property extension databases and custom user repositories, configuring and activating SSL, and configuring authentication. In addition, tasks such as activating Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and NIST SP800-131a security modules and configuring external security managers such as Security Access Manager might be required to secure your portal environment.
- Monitoring
  HCL Portal includes tools and features to help you monitor the portal site.
- Setting up a website
  Setting up a website includes, creating pages, adding navigation, setting up search, and adding content to the site. Themes are used to customize the portal's look-and-feel. Out-of-the-box templates and the site wizard can help you set up your portal site faster. You can add wikis and blogs to your site and let users tag and rate content on your site.
- Staging to production
  During portal solution development, the solution is initially developed, tested, and refined on one server or a limited number of servers. The solution is deployed later on live systems, referred to as the production environment. The process of moving the solution from the development environment to the production environment is called staging.
- Developing
  This section includes developer documentation on extending applications and development assets for HCL Portal and HCL Web Content Manager.
- Docker and Containerization
  Find topic information about Docker and Containerization for HCL Digital Experience.
- Practitioner Studio
  Practitioner Studio is a newly designed user experience for HCL Digital Experience. Please see the following pages to understand how the new navigation is organized.
- HCL Experience API
  This shows developers how to provision, configure, and use the HCL Experience API with the HCL Digital Experience 9.5 platform.
- HCL Content Composer
  The HCL Content Composer delivers simplified processes for creating and managing Digital Experience site content.
- HCL Digital Asset Management
  HCL Digital Asset Management (DAM) adds a central platform to store and include rich media assets in Digital Experience site content to present engaging, consistently branded experiences across digital channels.
- The Woodburn Studio demo site
  The Woodburn Studio is a website that demonstrates the use of some of the popular HCL Digital Experience features.
- Reference
  View information that can help you use our product documentation including terms of use, trademarks, and more.

Configuring the Search Center portlet | HCL Digital Experience

Get an overview of how you configure the Search Center.

About this task

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.

If required, you can configure the Search Center for search by metadata that is contained within the meta elements and by search scopes. See the following topics for details.

If your users use external search services to perform searches in different languages, refer to Using the Search Center with external search services with different languages.