Setting Up a Proxy Server Using Fusion Middleware Control

21 Managing Oracle SES Search in WebCenter 21-1 21 Managing Oracle SES Search in WebCenter This chapter describes how to configure the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search SES adapter to index and search most WebCenter objects. Oracle SES search is beneficial for the following reasons: ■ Oracle SES search provides unified ranking results, with the most relevant items appearing first. ■ Oracle SES search allows search of other repositories outside of Oracle WebCenter. ■ Oracle SES search supports the Search service REST APIs and data control for customizing your search interface. With WebCenter Portal applications, Oracle SES is set as the default and preferred search platform. Detailed configuration steps are in Section 21.5, Configuring Oracle SES to Search WebCenter Portal Applications. With WebCenter Spaces applications, internal WebCenter live search adapters are set as the default search platform; however, large-scale WebCenter implementations should be configured to use Oracle SES for best performance. Detailed configuration steps are in Section 21.6, Configuring Oracle SES to Search WebCenter Spaces Applications. The information in this chapter is not required if you are choose to use the original WebCenter Search services adapters to search WebCenter objects. Always use Fusion Middleware Control or the WLST command-line tool to review and configure back-end services for WebCenter applications. Any changes that you make to WebCenter applications, post deployment, are stored in MDS metatdata store as customizations. See Section 1.3.5, WebCenter Configuration Considerations. This chapter includes the following sections: ■ Section 21.1, What You Should Know About WebCenter Search with Oracle SES ■ Section 21.2, Configuration Roadmaps for Oracle SES in WebCenter ■ Section 21.3, Prerequisites for using Oracle SES ■ Section 21.4, Setting Up Oracle SES Connections Note: Most changes that you make to Search configuration, through Fusion Middleware Control or using WLST, are not dynamic. You must restart the managed server on which the WebCenter application is deployed by default, WC_Spaces for your changes to take effect. See Section 8.2, Starting and Stopping Managed Servers for WebCenter Application Deployments. 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.