Creating a Search Web Service
Search web services
allow you to specify general settings for your remote search repository,
leaving the security settings to be set in the associated outgoing
federated searches. This allows you to segregate access to your search
repository through multiple outgoing federated searches.
Before you create a search web service, you must:
- Install the search provider on the computer that hosts the portal
or on another computer
- Create a remote server pointing to the computer that hosts the
search provider (optional, but recommended)
To create a search web service you must have the following rights
and privileges:
- Access Administration activity right
- Create Web Service Infrastructure activity right
- At least Edit access to the parent folder (the folder that will
store the search web service)
- At least Select access to the remote server that the search web
service will use
- Click Administration.
- Open the folder in which you want to store the search web
service.
- In the Create Object drop-down list,
click Web Service — Search.
The Search Web Service Editor opens.
- On the Main Settings page, complete
the following task:
- Click the HTTP Configuration page
and complete the following task:
- Click the Advanced URL Settings page
and complete the following task:
- Click the Advanced Settings page
and complete the following task:
- Click the Authentication Settings page and complete the following task:
- Click the Preferences page and complete
the following task:
- Click the User Information page
and complete the following task:
- Click the Debug Settings page and
complete the following task:
- Click the Properties and Names page
and complete the following tasks:
The default security for this search web service is based
on the security of the parent folder. You can change the security
when you save this search web service (on the Security tab page in the Save As dialog box), or by editing this search web
service (on the Security page of the Search
Web Service Editor).
Portal administrators with at least Select
access to this search web service can create outgoing federated searches
based on the web service.