Indexing and querying are site-aware:
Structured content (repository data) such as the product catalog is made site-aware using the
siteIds
property of the repository items. Unstructured content (file-system data) can be made site-aware using index-only metadata tags.Content sets are associated with sites in the Site Administration utility. If a content set contains site-specific data, the index for that content set does not include data for sites that are not associated with the content set.
The
QueryRequest
object is configured with properties that allow you to return results from all sites or restrict results to only specific sites.