About Content Service Development
Content services allow you to search external repositories
through the portal and index external content in the portal Knowledge
Directory. These services allow users to access documents and other
resources from multiple repositories without leaving the portal workspace.
- Content crawlers access content from an external repository
and index it in the portal. Portal users can search for and open crawled
files through the portal Knowledge Directory. Content Crawlers can
be used to provide access to files on protected back-end
systems without violating access restrictions. Content Crawlers are
implemented as remote web services. For details, see About Content Crawlers.
- Federated search services are remote web services that
search external repositories, including the web, internal company
databases and document repositories. For details, see About ALI Federated Search Services. For additional search customization options, see Customizing ALI Search.
- About Content CrawlersContent Crawlers are extensible components used to import documents into the portal Knowledge Directory from a back-end document repository, including Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, Documentum and Novell. Portal users can search for and open crawled files on protected back-end systems through the portal without violating access restrictions.
- Customizing ALI SearchALI search can be extended in a number of ways, including adding to the portal search index, implementing web services to access content in other repositories, customizing the search UI, and adding portal search to remote services.
