Searching Other Content, Portals, or Web Search Engines with
Federated Search
You can use federated search to search for content in web
search engines (for example, Google or AltaVista), other portals,
or other collections of information (for example, a Lotus Notes collection
or a set of customer service incident reports).
Your portal administrator must have configured an outgoing
federated search and your portal developer must have enabled the
Federated Search button in the portal banner.
- In the portal banner, click Federated Search.
- In the Search for text box, type
the text you want to search for.
- Select the number of results you want returned per location.
By default, 5 results per location are returned. To change this
number, select a new number in the Number of results per
location drop-down list.
- Select the locations you want to search.
- To select particular search locations, select the locations.
- To select all search locations, select the box next to Search Location.
- To save your search location settings, select Always
search these locations for me.
- Click Search.
