Managing the content sources of a search collection | HCL Digital Experience

You can create, view, and update content sources to customize your search collections.

Search collections consist of one or more content sources. Use the Manage Search portlet to manage the content sources of a collection. To open the Manage Search portlet, click the Administration menu icon. Then, click Search Administration > Manage Search. Then, click Search Collections. Select a search collection by clicking the collection name link. The Content Sources window opens.

From the Content Sources window, you can manage the content sources by completing the following tasks.

Create a content source

Create a content source within the collection that you selected by clicking New Content Source. For detailed instructions, read Creating a content source.

Update a content source

Click Refresh to update the list of content sources. You can also view the status of the selected collection, such as the number of documents, the run time of the last crawler, and the crawl schedule.

View and manage schedulers

Click View Content Source Schedulers to view and manage schedulers. The portlet lists scheduled crawls and information about the start date and time, repeat intervals, next run date and time, and status. This option is only available if you defined schedulers for the content source.

Start crawling a content source

Click Start Crawler to start collecting documents and crawling a content source. Use this option to update a content source by a new run of the crawler, or to stop such an update. The timeout that you set in General Parameters for crawling a content source works as an approximate time limit. It might be exceeded by some percentage. The timeout works only for website content sources. To learn more about crawling, read Hint and tips for Portal Search crawls and Searching and crawling Portal and other sites.

Remove and regather documents

Click Regather to remove all previously collected documents within a content source and initiate a full crawling process to gather new documents.

Verify content source address

Click Verify Address to ensure that the address of the content source is correct. If the web content source is available and not blocked by a robots.text file, Manage Search returns the message 
Content Source is OK
. If the content source is invalid, inaccessible, or blocked, Manage Search returns an error message. When you create a new content source, Manage Search starts the Verify Address feature.

Configure a content source

Click Edit to configure general parameters, advanced parameters, schedulers, and security options.

Delete a content source

Click Delete to remove a content source from the search collection. The documents that were collected from this content source remain available for search until their expiration. You can specify this expiration time in Links expire after (days): in the General Parameters tab when you create a content source.