About the Different Types of Search
The portal provides basic and advanced search tools for
typical and advanced users, respectively. The fundamental search syntax
and behavior are the same in basic and advanced search, but basic
search adds automatic broadening, ranking features, and syntax correction.
The following table specifies the search type implemented in the search
tools available through different areas of the portal.
| Portal Area |
Search Type |
Description |
| Banner search |
Basic |
Searches the following portal objects: banner fields, the Knowledge
Directory, portlets, communities, users, Collaboration items, and
Publisher items. |
| Advanced search |
Advanced |
Allows composition of complex queries on specific document
or object properties. Allows searches on date fields as well as text
fields. Allows restriction to specific object type. Advanced search
also enables searching of all (or any combination of) indexable portal
objects, including many which are not searched in banner search, such
as content crawlers, jobs, and web services. |
| Federated Search |
n/a |
Federated search allows you to query multiple search web services
and receive collated results. Portal search can be included as one
of the search services. The portal search option from this page behaves
similarly to basic search, except only documents in the Knowledge
Directory are searched. Spell correction, Best Bets, and other customizations
made with the Search Results Manager do not apply. |
| Object selection |
Basic |
Search functionality enables end users to search for portlets
when adding portlets to pages or search for communities when joining
communities. |
| Administrative object search |
Basic |
Administrators can search the Administrative Objects Directory,
optionally filtering by folder and object type. Search for specific
kinds of portal objects is also integrated into the creation of various
kinds of administrative objects. For instance, when creating a remote
content crawler, the administrator is presented with the option of
searching the available content source objects. |
| Filters |
Advanced |
Allows you to create an advanced search query that documents
must match to be allowed into a particular folder in the Knowledge
Directory. |
| Snapshot Query |
Advanced |
A search query that allows you to specify conditions for searching
portal objects and, optionally, display the results in a Content Snapshot
Portlet and/or e-mail the results to users. You can limit your search
by language, object type, folder, property, and text conditions. |
