Main Settings (Incoming Federated Search)

An incoming federated search allows other Plumtree portals to search your portal. To enable a Federated Search, a relationship must be established between the outgoing and 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. To learn more about Federated Searches, click here.

To set the name and password:

1. In the Portal Identification name box, type a name for the Incoming Federated portal.

2. In the Portal Identification password box, type a password for the Incoming Federated portal.

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 Guest User box.

6. To save your settings, click Finish.

Adding Authentication Sources

Incoming search requests include the name of a local portal user 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.

• To add an authentication source, click Add Authentication Source. To learn more about authentication sources, click here.

Adding Groups

To add groups that will have access to the incoming federated search, click Add Group. To learn more about adding groups, click here.

• 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.