WCM Allowing Anonymous Search through WebSphere Portal Search Center

Searching WCM Anonymously through WebSphere Portal Search

1. Create new library named AnonLib. Grant User role to all portal users and anonymous user.

2. Create a new WebSphere Portal Search Collection. Login as the WP admin. Navigate to Administration, Search Administration, Manage Search, Search Collections. Click the New Collection button, enter “AnonCollection” for location, name, and description. Leave the rest blank. Hit OK.

Now, have to allow anonymous users to access the portal search collections. This is done through the WebSphere Portal Administration page. Login as the WP admin. Navigate to Administration, Access, Resource Permissions, PSE Sources. Click on the Key button next to your AnonCollection collection.

Add Anonymous user to the User role associated with the AnonCollection:

3. Now, have to set up the WCM Content for searching. Navigate to the WCM Authoring portlet. Edit the shared settings to add the AnonLib to the Library Selection.

4. Create the following items, allowing [all users] read access to every item:

   1. Publish workflow action named “WFA test publish action”

   2. Workflow Stage named “WFStage test published stage”. Select the WFA test publish action in the execute upon entering. In the workflow security section, add [all users] to the Read section, this will automatically grant read access to users when content using the workflow is published

   3. Workflow named “WF 1 Stage Workflow”. Select the WFStage test published stage as the workflow stage in the workflow.

   4. Authoring Template named “AT TestAT”. Add Text component named “TextCmpnt”.

   5. Presentation template named “PT TestPT”. Add the following tag:
      <Element context=”current” type=”content” key=”TextCmpnt”/><br>
      
      

   6. Site named “AnonSite”. Map the AT TestAT to the PT TestPT. Mark the site as searchable, select the AnonCollection. Add admin username/password to the form.

   7. Site Area named AnonSiteArea, saved under AnonSite

Content named “AnonContent”. Select the AT TestAT for the authoring template, WF 1 Stage Workflow as the workflow, and AnonSiteArea as its site area. In the TextCmpnt, enter “Search test”.

5. Now, you have all anonymous WCM objects within the AnonLib library. You have a piece of content with a search term. Next, we have to grant anonymous access to the Portal Search Center portlet to allow anonymous searching.

6. Navigate to Portal Administration, navigate to Portlet Management → Portlets. Search for “Search” in title starts with. Click on the Key icon to add roles to the Search Center portlet. Grant Anonyous Portal User privileged user role.

7. If you're using the embedded search center portlet within the theme, follow these instructions:
   http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&ca=portall2& ;uid=swg21265193
   
   Otherwise, deploy the Search Center portlet to an anonymous accessible page.

Logout of WebSphere portal, and search for “Search” within the search center. The content you created should appear. (If it does not, login and force a crawl on the AnonCollection to ensure the collection contains the WCM content object.










*NOTE since we are anonymous, the link to the WCM content returns with the /connect:

http://host:port/wps/wcm/connect/anonlibrary/AnonSite/AnonSiteA rea/AnonContent