Main Settings (Incoming Federated Search)

An incoming federated search allows other Oracle WebCenter Interaction portals to search your portal. To enable a federated search, a relationship must be established between the requesting (outgoing) and serving (incoming) federated portals. For every request issued, the requesting portal sends a portal identification name and password to identify itself to the serving portal. Administrators of both portals involved in a relationship must agree upon a single portal identification name and password.  This information is entered in both the outgoing and incoming federated search objects.

To learn more about federated searches, click here.

To set the name and password:

1. In the Portal identification name box, type the agreed upon name.

2. In the Portal identification password box, type the agreed upon password.

3. In the Password confirmation box, type the password again.

4. In the Served links are valid for box, type the minimum number of minutes these results should be cached. After a requesting portal issues a search of your portal, the links returned by the search are stored for at least as long as you specify here. After this period has elapsed, the user on the requesting portal might need to re-issue the search.

5. To allow unauthenticated users to search the portal as a guest, click the Allow unauthenticated users to search as the Guest user box.

Adding Authentication Sources and Groups

Incoming search requests include the name of a local portal user (that is, a user from the serving portal) to impersonate during the search. The request is honored only if the impersonated user is a member of one of the authentication sources or one of the groups you specify.

• To add an authentication source, click Add Authentication Source.

• To add a group, click Add Group.

• To delete an authentication source or a group, select it and click .

• To select or clear all of the authentication source or group check boxes, select or clear the check box to the left of Authentication Sources or Groups.

• To toggle the order in which the authentication sources or groups are sorted, click Authentication Sources or Groups or click the icon to the right of the column name— (sort ascending, a-z) or (sort descending, z-a).

• To display the page associated with this help topic:

1. Click Administration.
2. Open the Incoming Federated Search Editor:
• To create a new incoming federated search:
1. Open an administrative folder.
2. In the Create Object drop-down list, click Federated Search - Incoming.
• To edit an existing incoming federated search:
1. Navigate to the incoming federated search you want to edit.
2. Click the incoming federated search name.