Use the Collections Form

Experienced administrators can use the Collections form to define, validate, and enable document collections. You can also use the form to edit a collection by changing required or optional information in any field within the form.

You define external collections by specifying all of the required information about the web servers that host the collection and the documents that make up the collection, as well as any relevant optional information.

The form is divided into sections that prompt you to perform the following collection tasks.

• Define the collection. You define basic collection information such as the name, locale, display locales, and so on.

• Access the collection. You define who can access this collection.

• Describe the collection. You specify how Search will crawl the web servers that host the documents for this collection.

• Validate the collection. You provide optional validation rules, as needed, to the collection.

• Review the collection options and activate the collection.