The Search project contains information about a set of searchable content you define, and the configuration information for that content, such as where it comes from, what rules are followed for its indexing, and customization data is applied. Project Administration is the part of the Search Administration interface dedicated to project-related tasks.
The main item of importance for a project is its index. The index is the searchable content version produced by ATG Search’s processing. The index is created from thecontent sets, which organize the content you define.Content refers to the original, unprocessed documents, databases, etc. that you want to make searchable.
The project links the index with Search environments, which are where indexing takes place (indexing environment), where testing can be done (staging environment), and where the index is finally deployed so end-users can search it (production environment).
You can also use projects to associate an index with customization data, such as topic sets or specialized dictionaries. This customization data is created using the Workbench (see next section).
For information, see the Managing Search Projects and Managing Search Environments chapters of this guide.
