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.
About this task
To enable anonymous users to search public pages of your
portal, you need to complete the following tasks:
- Make the Search Center portlet available on a public page of your portal so that users can access it without having to log in to the portal.
- Enable public sessions for your portal. The reason is that the Search Center portlet needs a valid session for its run time, and by default, sessions are not enabled on anonymous pages in the portal. By default, sessions are only created when a user authenticates and logs in to the portal.
- Have or create your own custom search scope. You can edit your own custom scopes, but you cannot modify the default search scopes to give anonymous users access.
Proceed as follows: