Advanced URL Settings (Search Web Service)

To specify a service configuration page, administration configuration page, or shared user preferences page for this Web service:

1. Your Web service might require search-specific configuration settings. For example, you might need authentication information to access the area of the search repository specified in the federated search.
   
   If so, you can include a page for these settings in the associated Outgoing Federated Search Editor. In the Service Configuration URL box, type the path to the configuration page.

2. Your Web service might require administrative configuration settings or user preferences that affect more than just this Web service. For example, you might have server settings that are stored in a remote database, or you might have several Web services accessing an application that requires user credentials. Rather than creating a separate configuration page for each Web service and requiring users to specify the same information multiple times, you can create a link to these shared settings, allowing users to specify the information only once for all of these Web services.
   
   Because the links will have the same name as the Web service, do one of the following:

• Give this Web service (and thus the link) a name that clarifies what the shared settings are for.

• Create a Web service that is not used for anything but these links.
  
  Note: In this case the Web service will not be used to create any associated objects, so you can use any URL for the URL settings on the Main Settings page.

You can specify the following shared settings:

• Administration Configuration URL: If you type a path in this box, a link displays in the Select Utility drop-down list (in the Administrative Objects Directory). Only users with activity rights to access Administration and Utilities can access this link.

• User Configuration URL: If you type a path in this box, a link displays on the My Account page to any user with at least Read access to the Web service. To send these settings to a Web service, specify the names of the preferences you want to send on the Preferences page of that Web service.
  
  Note: Any user preferences that are required by the Web service must be specified, by name, on the Preferences page.

For more information on settings and preferences and how to implement them, refer to the Oracle WebCenter Interaction Web Service Development Guide, which is located on the Oracle Technology Network at http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/bea.html.

• To display the page associated with this help topic:

1. Click Administration.
2. Open the Search Web Service Editor:
• To create a new search Web service:
1. Open an administrative folder.
2. In the Create Object drop-down list, click Web Service - Search.
• To edit an existing search Web service:
1. Navigate to the search Web service you want to edit.
2. Click the search Web service name.
3. On the left, under Edit Object Settings, click Advanced URL Settings.