Webcenter Search

[Nelson]

Hi everyone,

I would like to hear about you how use search in Webcenter. Do you thing that is necessary use SES? I was thinking to use just Webcenter Content Search, but if I do this I can't find pages, just content.

I have a problemn because my customer doesn't have infrastructure enough to install SES.

Do you have best pratices to do search? What do you think about this?

Thank you very much. 

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[Andrejus Baranovskis]

Hi Nelson,

I agree, SES might be too heavy in some scenarios.

In our case, we have written extension for WebCenter (pluggable into Spaces as well), and searching for pages/taskflows as well as for content inside these pages.

Andrejus

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[Nelson]

Hi Andrejus, very nice.

Can I plug this extension in my Custom Portal. Are you talking about the taskflows: Search, Search - Saved Searches...?

Thank you

2011/10/13 Andrejus Baranovskis <andrejus.b...@gmail.com>

[Glazyrin Boris]

Hi Andrejus,

Can you tell us some more details, how you wrote extension to search content inside pages? What API have you used, what products ….

Does it search only public content or you show only content that user can access?

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Right now we have big problems with search in our WebCenter Portal application, but maybe we are simply looking in a wrong place.

Our main task – to allow users  to find content that is published on our portal pages. Content can be published on pages with ADF Rich text editor, content presenter or our own taskflows, that display static content.

In search results we have to show on what page content was found and give a link to that  page.

Thank you in advance,

Boris

[Andrejus Baranovskis]

Hi Nelson,

Yes definitely - its pluggable into WebCenter Custom Portal, same as into WebCenter Spaces. It doesn't require any search server installation, depends only on standard ADF/WebCenter libraries and pluggable into any WebCenter portal. Its basically ADF Task Flow, which is able to search across static UCM content and across static ADF/WebCenter application content. Now we are working on functionality to index dynamic database related content rendered through ADF UI. Extension performs secured search and scans only pages/task flows authorized for current user. Saved Search works as well - we are using WebCenter MDS schema + customer database schema to store search results.

Regards,

Andrejus

[Andrejus Baranovskis]

Hi Boris,

Our extension is implemented as regular ADF Task Flow, means is pluggable into any project based on ADF/WebCenter. We are searching only through content that user can access, this is implemented relying on ADF Security store. There are no third party products used so far (just plain ADF and Java), we want to avoid using third party licensed products, because extension is implemented to be easily pluggable with any ADF/WebCenter project.

So far we succeeded to implement following functionality:

1. Search through static content rendered by WebCenter Content Presenter, based on UCM search functionality. Give a link to page with search content and navigate through WebCenter Portal menu model

2. Search through static content available on ADF UI (SPX or JSFF). Give a link to page with search content and navigate through WebCenter Portal menu model

Next task is to implement search for dynamic data content once rendered inside ADF UI (we may need to use open source indexing solution for this, for example Lucene from Apache).

Regards,

Andrejus