J Completing Installation of Oracle WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint

If you installed Oracle WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint, perform the following tasks to complete the installation:

Verifying Installation
Creating a Content Source
Creating a Content Crawler
Creating a Job

Verifying Installation

To verify the Oracle WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint service components have been installed, use the Windows Internet Information Services Manager to verify the Oracle WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint virtual directories have been installed.

From Administrative Tools, open the Internet Information Services Manager.
In the IIS Web site you specified when installing the Oracle WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint, these three virtual directories should be present: SharePointCWS, CustomSearch, and SiteFeed.

Creating a Content Source

Oracle WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint comes with a default content source, SharePoint Content Source, that can be updated with your MOSS or WSS information. To edit the content source, perform the following steps in the Oracle WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint folder in the portal's Administrative Object Directory:

Log in to the portal as an administrator.
Click Administration.
Open the Oracle WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint folder.
Open the SharePoint Content Source object.
Under SharePoint User Settings, enter the login information for a user that has access to all of the Microsoft SharePoint content that you wish to crawl into the portal. If the crawler will use a site feed, the user must have access to each of the sites specified by the site feed.

When the crawler accesses the desired Microsoft SharePoint site, it will run as this user. The user must have the following rights on the site:
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Browse Directories, Manage Lists, Use Remote Interfaces
- Windows SharePoint Services 2.0: Browse Directories, Manage List Permissions
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Browse Directories, Manage Lists, Use Remote Interfaces
To crawl Form Template folders in MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0, the View Application Pages and View Versions rights are also required.

Note:

The authentication information configured in the content source is used only by the crawler. These credentials will not be passed to the Microsoft SharePoint site when a user clicks on an item in the portal. Authentication of the user to access that item is handled by MOSS or WSS.
If necessary, change other settings as described in the online help.

Caution:

Do not change the gateway setting. The portal cannot gateway Microsoft SharePoint documents. The gateway interferes with authentication and WebDAV features of Microsoft SharePoint.

Stay logged in to the portal with the Oracle WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint folder open for the next procedure.

Creating a Content Crawler

Create a content crawler to import content from the content source. To create a content crawler, perform the following steps in the Oracle WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint folder of the portal's Administrative Object Directory:

From the Create Object menu, select Content Crawler - Remote.
In the Choose Content Source dialog box, choose the content source that you created in the previous procedure.

On the Main Settings page, configure the SharePoint crawler settings:

Table J-1 SharePoint Crawler Configuration - Main Settings

Setting	Description
SharePoint Site	Select Site URL to crawl a Microsoft SharePoint site or site collection. Type the URL of the site that you wish to crawl and click Validate. This URL should end in "/". The crawler will validate that the URL entered is a valid Microsoft SharePoint site or site collection and display the name of the starting subsite. If the URL entered does not end in "/" but a valid site collection can be extracted from the URL, the crawler will discard any extraneous trailing information from the URL and update the URL shown in the UI accordingly. The subsite name may be listed as "/" if the starting site is the root site of the site collection itself. If the starting Microsoft SharePoint URL points to a subsite of the site collection, the subsite will be listed. Select Feed to crawl a list of WSS sites specified by an RSS feed. Type the path to the site feed. The path must return a valid RSS 2.0 document. For more information about crawling RSS feeds, see Crawling RSS Site Feeds.
Crawl Depth	Select the depth of the crawl. It is recommended that you choose Selected Site and All Subsites to simplify indexing of Microsoft SharePoint sites. If you do not choose this setting, you will have to create a separate crawler for each subsite. You should choose Selected Site Only if you want to tightly control what Microsoft SharePoint sites are indexed.
Folder Path	Select the folder or folders where you would like to import Microsoft SharePoint content.
Settings	Select how you would like to import the Microsoft SharePoint items. It is recommended that you choose to mirror the folder structure, approve imported documents, and import security. If you choose to mirror the folder structure, the crawler will mirror the Microsoft SharePoint site structure. Importing security means that only those users who can view the source item in MOSS or WSS can see the corresponding document in the portal and search results. For more information on importing security, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Interaction.
Document Access Privileges	Specify the access rights for the imported content.

On the List Settings page, check the box next to each type of Microsoft SharePoint item you want to crawl. To crawl documents attached to attached to the list items, select Crawl documents attached to list items.
Configure the remaining settings as described in the online help.

Stay logged in to the portal with the Oracle WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint folder open for the next procedure.

Creating a Job

To import content, you must associate the content crawler with a job and run the job. To create and run a job, perform the following steps in the Oracle WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint folder of the portal's Administrative Object Directory:

From the Create Object menu, select Job.
Click Add Operation.
Choose the content crawler that you created in the previous procedure.
Choose the scheduling values for the job and click Finish.
Name the job and click OK.
When you are finished creating the job, ensure that the Oracle WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint folder is associated with an automation service. For assistance, see the online help under Select Utilities, then Automation Service.

Crawling RSS Site Feeds

In addition to crawling Microsoft SharePoint sites and site collections, SharePoint content crawlers can also be used to import content from a list of sites provided by an RSS feed.

The path to a site feed can be a URL (http://, file:///), a local file path on the Microsoft SharePoint machine (c:\feed.xml), or a UNC file path on the Microsoft SharePoint network (\\server\feeds\feed.xml). Secured sites (https://) and FTP sites (ftp://) cannot be crawled.

When you install Oracle WebCenter Console for Microsoft SharePoint, the installer creates a virtual directory named SiteFeed that can be used to deploy a simple RSS feed. For example, you can put a well-formed, valid XML feed document or an .aspx file that generates a site feed into the sitefeed folder on the file system and then access it via HTTP.

The site feed document should conform to the RSS 2.0 specification. The link element of each item must contain the URL to a valid Microsoft SharePoint site. The title element of an item is optional. If provided, it should be a valid Knowledge Directory folder name, as it will be used as the Knowledge Directory folder name for the site for a mirroring crawl. If the title element is omitted, the folder name will be retrieve from the Microsoft SharePoint site for a mirroring crawl.

Example site feed document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
            <channel>
                        <title>SharePoint Site List</title>
                        <link>#</link>
                        <description>List of SharePoint sites to be crawled by Oracle WebCenter Console for SharePoint </description>
                        <item>
                                    <title>MOSS TeamSite at mySPServer:17938/sites/MainSiteCollection</title>
                                    <link>http://mySPServer:17938/sites/MainSiteCollection/</link>
                        </item>
                        <item>
                                    <link>http://SharePointServer:9167/</link>
                        </item>
            </channel>
</rss>