Using the search seedlist 1.0 format
As of version 6.1.5, Portal Search is configured to support the IBM® Web Content Manager search seedlist 1.0 format by default. Versions before 6.1.5 use Web Content Manager search seedlist format 0.9.
About this task
Search seedlist 1.0 provides several features:
- You can use the web content page type to render content found in the search results on the corresponding web content page.
- You can include custom metadata fields from a web content item that appear in the search seedlist but not in the HTML source.
- You can search within a specific library or site area, across all web content libraries, or across a list of libraries.
- You can perform incremental crawling of libraries for faster seedlist processing. With incremental crawling, when a crawl requests new items, only items that have been added, changed, or deleted since the previous crawl are retrieved.
Important: The syntax of the seedlist URL has
changed with seedlist format 1.0. Older search collections created
using seedlist format 0.9 cannot be reused or migrated to the new
format. Be sure that you index all your content again after updating
the Web Content Manager seedlist
format from 0.9 to 1.0.
Search seedlist 1.0 can make access control information available in a way that makes pre-filtering of contents possible. Pre-filtering provides the fastest filtering approach because it takes place in the search index level. An additional advantage of pre-filtering is that remote secured content sources can be searched from the portal. The filtering mode is defined as part of the search service configuration parameters.