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21-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle WebCenter ■ Section 21.5, Configuring Oracle SES to Search WebCenter Portal Applications ■ Section 21.6, Configuring Oracle SES to Search WebCenter Spaces Applications ■ Section 21.7, Troubleshooting Issues with Oracle SES Search Audience The content of this chapter is intended for Fusion Middleware administrators users granted the Admin or Operator role through the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console. See also, Section 1.8, Understanding Administrative Operations, Roles, and Tools.

21.1 What You Should Know About WebCenter Search with Oracle SES

Oracle recommends Oracle SES search for best performance. You can configure Oracle SES to search WebCenter applications for the following resources: ■ Documents, including wikis and blogs ■ Announcements and Discussions ■ Spaces, lists, pages, and people resources in WebCenter Spaces Results from all sources are listed together, with the most relevant items appearing first. For example, when you run a search for a user name, most likely, you are looking for that persons contact information that is, the exact user name in the People Connections service, not necessarily documents that the user wrote. The unified ranking results in Oracle SES allow you to see the most relevant results, across all different types of searches, without configuring Search Preferences. When Oracle SES is configured to search WebCenter, other non-crawled resources for example, notes and events are not returned in search results. Three types of Oracle SES crawlers index WebCenter resources: ■ Oracle WebCenter Documents Crawler : For both WebCenter Portal applications and WebCenter Spaces applications. This uses the Oracle SES Oracle Content Server source type to crawl documents, including wikis and blogs. ■ Oracle WebCenter Discussions Crawler : For both WebCenter Portal applications and WebCenter Spaces applications. This uses the Oracle SES Database source type to crawl discussions and announcements. ■ Oracle WebCenter Spaces Crawler : For WebCenter Spaces applications only. This uses the Oracle SES Oracle WebCenter source type to crawl certain WebCenter Spaces objects, such as lists, pages, Spaces, and people connections profiles. Note: Oracle WebCenter Spaces includes the additional Oracle SES crawler that indexes Spaces, lists, pages, and people resources in WebCenter Spaces. This crawler is not supported in WebCenter Portal applications. Note: Oracle SES crawls information collected as a source. Each source has a type that identifies where the information is stored, such as in a database or a content repository. Managing Oracle SES Search in WebCenter 21-3 When you configure Oracle SES to search WebCenter, all available Oracle SES crawlers should be enabled. It is not recommended to enable one of these Oracle SES crawlers and not another Oracle SES crawler. For example, when you configure Oracle SES to search WebCenter Portal applications, you cannot have it crawl documents and not discussions.

21.2 Configuration Roadmaps for Oracle SES in WebCenter

Use the roadmaps in this section as an administrators guide through the configuration process: ■ Roadmap - Configuring Oracle SES for WebCenter Portal Applications Figure 21–1 and Table 21–1 provide an overview of the prerequisites and tasks required to get Oracle SES working in WebCenter Portal applications. 21-4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle WebCenter Figure 21–1 Configuring Oracle SES for WebCenter Portal Applications Managing Oracle SES Search in WebCenter 21-5 ■ Roadmap - Configuring Oracle SES for WebCenter Spaces Figure 21–2 and Table 21–2 provide an overview of the prerequisites and tasks required to get Oracle SES working in WebCenter Spaces. Table 21–1 Configuring Oracle SES for WebCenter Portal Applications Actor Task Sub-task Administrator 1. Install WebCenter and Oracle SES 2. Configure Oracle SES with an identity management system 3. Set up a Document Service Manager in Oracle SES 4. Create a Federation Trusted Entity using one of the following tools: ■ Oracle SES Admin Tool ■ WLST 5. Create two crawl sources: Oracle WebCenter Documents Crawler and Oracle WebCenter Discussions Crawler using one of the following tools: ■ Oracle SES Admin Tool ■ WLST 6. Create a source group for the crawl sources using one of the following tools: ■ Oracle SES Admin Tool ■ WLST Developer 7. Integrate the Search service in your WebCenter Portal application 7.a Configure a connection to Oracle SES in JDeveloper 7.b Add a Search service task flow to a page in JDeveloper Developer or Administrator 8. Deploy the WebCenter Portal application using one of the following tools: ■ JDeveloper Developer ■ Fusion Middleware Control Administrator ■ WLST Administrator ■ WLS Admin Console Administrator Administrator 9. Optional Secure the connection to Oracle SES with SSL Administrator 10. Configure additional search parameters using one of the following tools: ■ Fusion Middleware Control ■ WLST ■ WLS Admin Console 21-6 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle WebCenter Figure 21–2 Configuring Oracle SES for WebCenter Spaces