Integrating additional WCM Search collection with Portal8 search

Step 1 :- Navigate to PortalAdministration->Search Administration->Manage Search

Recap of portal base search concept

   Default Search Collection :- This contains search collections for wcm and portal by default in portal 8

WCM Content Source :- This resource collection will have all information related to wcm content. When we perform any search operation on wcm related things portal uses this search collection.

URL :- http://localhost:10039/wps/seedlist/myserver?SeedlistId=&Source=com.ibm.workplace.wcm.plugins.seedlist.retriever.WCMRetrieverFactory&Action=GetDocuments

Portal Content Source :- This resource collection will have all information related to portal pages any search related to portal will land here

URL :- http://localhost:10039/wps/seedlist/myserver?Action=GetDocuments&Format=atom&Locale=en_US&Range=100&Source=com.ibm.lotus.search.plugins.seedlist.retriever.portal.PortalRetrieverFactory&Start=0

Step 2 :- Go back to step 1 and Click on New Collection to create a search collection

Step 3 :-  Now click ok a new search collection will be created.

Step 4 :- Now click on newly created search collection to create a content source in it

Step 5 :-  Now click on New Content source to create a source for search collection

SeedList url :- http://localhost:10039/wps/seedlist/server?SeedlistId=POC_DesignLibrary/ST_PersonalizationSiteArea=com.ibm.workplace.wcm.plugins.seedlist.retriever.WCMRetrieverFactory&Action=GetDocuments

SeedListId :- libraryName/siteAreaName

Step 6 :- Now start crawling for indexing content

Note :- After crawling is completed you can have users search against your new search collection.