Preferences (Search Web Service)

Your search Web service might require user preferences that affect more than just this Web service. For example, you might have several Web services accessing an application that requires user credentials. Rather than creating a separate preference page for each Web service and requiring users to specify the same user credentials multiple times, you can create a link on the My Account page, allowing users to specify these credentials only once for all of these Web services.

To share preferences between Web services:

1. To create the link on the My Account page, in this Web service or another Web service that utilizes these preferences, specify the path to the user preferences link on the Advanced URL Settings page.

2. In each Web service, on the Preferences page, specify, by name, the user preferences you want to send to the objects associated with the Web service.

You can perform the following actions on this page:

• To send a user preference to the federated searches associated with this Web service, type the name of the preference in the box below User Preferences.

• To include another user preference, click Add User Preference and type the name of the preference in the additional box.

• To delete a user preference, select the preference and click .

• To select or clear all of the preference check boxes, select or clear the box to the left of User Preferences.

• 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 Preferences.