Welcome
How to Use This Book
Audience
Typographical Conventions
BEA Documentation and Resources
Overview of Portal Administration
Overview of Portal Components
Overview of Web Services Architecture
Overview of Portal Security
Overview of the Portal Browsing User Interface
Portal Areas
Display Options
Navigation Options
Horizontal Combo Box Drop-Down Navigation
Tabbed Section Left Vertical Navigation
Horizontal Drop-Down Navigation
Low Bandwidth and Accessibility Navigation
Branding
Creating and Editing Branding Portlets
Locale Settings
Configuring Experience Definitions
Creating Experience Definitions
Directing Users to Experience Definitions
Overview of the Portal Administrative User Interface and Tools
Administration Section of the Portal
Administration Utilities in the Portal Installation
Managing Portal Users and Groups
About Portal Roles, Groups, Users, and Profiles
Delegating Activity Rights
Creating Custom Activity Rights
Configuring Groups
Configuring Dynamic Group Membership
Configuring Default User Profiles
Adding Users
Maintaining Groups, Users, and Profiles with Identity Services
Importing Users and Groups from Authentication Sources
Importing User Profiles from Profile Sources
Creating Users
Allowing Users to Create Their Own Accounts
Adding Users with Invitations
Managing User Profiles and User Accounts
Deleting Users
Managing User Profiles
Auditing User Accounts and Actions
Configuring User Activity Auditing
Deleting Audit Messages and Archives
Locking and Unlocking User Accounts
Automatically Locking User Accounts
Manually Locking User Accounts
Managing User Credentials for Existing Applications
Setting User Access Privileges
Directing Users to Experience Definitions
Managing Portal Content
About Portal Content
Configuring Content Types and Document Properties
Configuring the Global Content Type Map
Configuring the Global Document Property Map
Configuring Content Sources
About Content Sources
Using Content Sources and Security to Control Access
Configuring Web Content Sources
Configuring Remote Content Sources
Managing the Knowledge Directory
About the Knowledge Directory
Setting Knowledge Directory Preferences
Creating Folders
Submitting Documents
Controlling Document Placement with Filters
Using Filters to Organize Crawled Content
Sorting Content into Folders with the Smart Sort Utility
Maintaining Document Links
Extending Portal Services with Portlets
About Portlets
Using Portlets for Navigation and Login
Using Portlets to Access Existing Web Applications
Creating Portlet Web Services, Portlet Templates, Portlets, and Portlet Bundles
Requiring and Recommending Portlets
Adding Multiple Portlets to Multiple Groups' My Pages
Managing Communities
About Communities
Creating Page Templates and Community Templates
Creating Communities
Creating Subcommunities
Community Pages
Creating Community Groups
Creating Community Portlets
Managing Community Users and Groups
Requiring Communities for Groups
Subscribing Multiple Groups to Multiple Communities
Managing the Community Knowledge Directory
Enabling Document Discovery with Content Crawlers and Content Services
About Content Crawlers
Developing Content Services to Target Specific Content
Configuring a Content Crawler
Testing Content Crawlers
Maintaining Content Imported by Content Crawlers
Keeping Document Records Up-to-Date
Working with Search
Customizing Search Service Behavior
Configuring Best Bets and Top Best Bets
Modifying the Properties Searched and the Relevance Weight for Properties
Implementing a Search Thesaurus
Setting Up the Synonym List for the Thesaurus
Customizing Categorization of Search Results
Setting Up Property Data for Categorization
Managing Grid Search
Updating the Search Collection
Managing Checkpoints and Restoring Your Search Collection
Managing Search Cluster Topology
Monitoring Search Activity with Logs
Using the Command Line Admin Utility
Requesting Specific Cluster Status Information
Changing the Run Level of the Cluster
Purging and Resetting the Search Collection
Initiating a Cluster Checkpoint
Aborting a Checkpoint or Reconfiguration Operation
Creating Snapshot Queries
Implementing Federated Searches
Configuring Federated Searches
Configuring Outgoing Federated Searches
Configuring Incoming Federated Searches
Searching Non-Portal Repositories
Automating Administrative Tasks
About Jobs
Registering Automation Services
Setting Up Job Folders
Starting the BEA ALI Automation Service
Running Portal Agents
Creating and Running Jobs
Configuring External Operations to Run as Jobs
Reviewing Jobs Status and Job Logs
Migrating, Backing Up, and Restoring Portal Objects
About Object Migration
Using Migration Packages
Creating a Migration Package in the Portal
Creating a Migration Package Using a Command Line Tool
Importing Objects in the Portal
Importing Objects Using a Command Line Tool
Backing Up and Restoring the Portal
Configuring Advanced Properties and Logging
Configuring Portal Components
Using the Portal Utility
Modifying Portal Configuration Files
Configuring the Automation Service
Fine-Tuning the Search Service Configuration
Default Search Service Parameters
Optional Search Service Parameters
Using the Config Tool to Modify Database and Portal Logging Settings
Configuring AquaLogic Interaction Logging Spy
Configuring AquaLogic Interaction Logging Spy to Display Portal Messages
Using the Counter Monitoring System
About Counter Monitoring
Setting up Counter Log Files
Example of the opencounterslogger Command:
Running the Counter Monitoring Console
Using Windows Perfmon to View Counter Data
Localizing Your Portal
The Purpose of Localization
Localizing Objects
Enabling Object Localization
Localizing All Objects
Localizing Each Object
Internationalizing the Search Service
Displaying International Text in the Portal
Searching International Documents
Crawling International Document Repositories
Submitting International Documents to the Knowledge Directory
Deploying Single Sign-On
About SSO
Configuring an SS0 Authentication Provider for Use with the Portal
Configuring the Windows Integrated Authentication Service
Configuring Netegrity SiteMinder 4.6
Configuring Netegrity SiteMinder Policy Server
Configuring Netegrity SiteMinder Web Agent (4.6)
Configuring Netegrity SiteMinder 5.5
Configuring Netegrity SiteMinder Policy Server
Configuring Netegrity SiteMinder Web Agent (5.5)
Configuring a Netegrity SiteMinder 5.5 SP3 and 6.0.2.5
Configuring Netegrity SiteMinder Policy Server
Configuring Netegrity SiteMinder Web Agent (5.5 SP3 or 6.0) on Linux/Unix
Configuring Netegrity SiteMinder Web Agent on (5.5 SP3 or 6.0) Windows
Configuring an Oblix Authentication Provider
Configuring Oblix Access Server for a Portal Running on Tomcat
Configuring Oblix Access Server for a Portal Running on IIS
Configuring Oblix WebGate for Apache
Configuring Oblix WebGate to Work with Remote Servers
Integrating With Other Authentication Providers
Configuring an Authentication Source
Configuring the Portal for SSO
Modifying the Portal Configuration for BasicSSO
Configuring Integration with WIA
Modifying the Portal Configuration for Integration with Netegrity Authentication Servers
Modifying the Portal Configuration for Integration with Oblix Authentication Servers
Modifying the Portal Configuration for CustomSSO Service
Default Behavior of Search Service
Types of Search
Search Syntax
Operator Modes
Precedence and Parentheses
Punctuation
Case Sensitivity
Stemming
Wildcards
Quoted Phrases
Thesaurus Expansion
Search Language
Examples
Results Ranking
Term Frequency
Metadata (field) Weighting
Phrases and Proximity
Basic Search Behavior
Advanced Search Behavior
Common Questions and Answers
SSO FAQ
Other FAQ