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Configuring Siebel Search for Third-Party Search Engines

Configuring Siebel Search for third-party search engines involves adding a new search engine record and configuring the search engine settings as required.

This task is a step in Process of Configuring Siebel Search for Third-Party Search Engines.

To configure Siebel Search for third-party search engines

1. Navigate to the Administration - Search screen, then the Search Engine Settings view.
2. In the Search Engines applet, add a new record for the third-party search engine and configure the fields described in the following table for the new search engine.

   For example, add an Elastic Search Engine record with the values shown in the following table.

   Field	Description	Value
   Engine Name	Name of the search engine, which appears as the tab display name in the Search Results view.	Elastic SE
   Search Adapter	Name of the search adapter, which maps to the search engine configured.	WS Search Adapter Service.
   Sequence Number	Indicates the position where the Elastic SE tab will appear in the Search Results view. For example, 1 indicates the first position and so on.	2
   Active	Indicates whether to show (Y) or hide (N) the Elastic SE tab in the Search Results view.	Y
   Auto Suggest Supported	Indicates whether to enable (Y) or disable (N) the auto suggest feature for search.	Y

3. In the Driver Parameters applet, configure the fields for the third-party search engine.

   For example, configure the fields shown in the following table for Elastic SE.

   Field	Description	Value
   URL	The address of the Web Service for the third-party search engine.	http://<ip_address>:<port_number>/SiebelSearchService/SiebelSearchService
   Batch Submit Size	The number of records submitted at a time for indexing. The Object Manager query performance, search engine footprint size, and Siebel Server specification are used in determining optimum Batch Submit Size. Set the value to the following: If you are using FTP indexing, set the value to less than or equal to 1500.	1000
   Batch Split Size	The number of business component records in a batch. The Object Manager query performance, search engine footprint size, and Siebel Server specification are used in determining optimum Batch Split Size. Set the value to the following: If you are using FTP indexing, set the value to less than or equal to 4500.	100