Providing Search Access to External Repositories with Outgoing
Federated Searches
An outgoing
federated search enables users of your portal to search other AquaLogic
Interaction portals or other external repositories.
Before you create an outgoing federated search, you must:
- Create a search web service.
- Agree upon a portal identification name and password with the
administrator of the serving portal.
- If your portal users do not exist in the serving portal, work
with the serving portal user to determine the serving portal users
that can be impersonated and what they can access.
To create an outgoing federated search you must have the following
rights and privileges:
- Access Administration activity right
- Create Federated Searches activity right
- At least Edit access to the parent folder (the folder that will
store the federated search)
- If your portal users do not exist on the serving portal, at least
Select access to the groups that need to impersonate serving portal
users
- Click Administration.
- Open the folder in which you want to store the federated
search.
- In the Create Object drop-down list,
click Federated Search - Outgoing.
The Choose Web Service
dialog box opens.
- Select the web service that provides the basic settings
for your outgoing federated search and click OK.
The Outgoing Federated Search Editor opens, displaying
the Portal to Portal Settings page.
- If you are not searching another AquaLogic Interaction
portal, leave No selected.
If you are searching another AquaLogic Interaction portal:
- Next to Send portal authentication,
select Yes.
- In the Portal identification name box, type the agreed upon name.
- In the Portal identification password box, type the agreed upon password.
- In the Password confirmation box,
type the password again.
- If your portal users do not exist on the serving portal,
under User Name Aliasing, map groups from your
portal to users from the serving portal that they can impersonate:
Note: When a requesting user tries to search a serving portal,
the requesting portal examines
the list of mapped groups from the top down; the first group in the
list to which
the requesting user belongs is used to determine what serving portal
user the requesting
user will impersonate. Therefore, groups with high levels of security
should be mapped
first (at the top of the list), so that requesting users are granted
the highest level of
security available to them.
- Click
Add Group, in the Select Group dialog box, select the
groups you want to add and click OK.
- To the far right of the group, click
.
- In the Use this user name alias column
box, type the name of the serving portal user
whom you want this group of requesting users to impersonate.
- Click
to save the mapping.
To delete a group, select it and click 
.To select
or clear all of the group boxes, select
or clear the box to the left of Members of this group.
After the administrator of the serving portal has set up
the incoming federated search, your users can use federated search
to search content from the other portal.
