subject: Liferay Portal 6 Is Defined For Portals The New Search Abilities [print this page] Liferay Portal Developers faces a new facility where the search system used for various databases or web features has been evolved. When Liferay portal is defined for portals the new search abilities added proves to be very useful. The sixth edition brings in an automated, web-friendly & federated search system where you can easily access users groups, document library docs, photo apps' inclusions, calendar entries, wiki content and much more. Now in Liferay portals latest edition search portlets are executed for better Liferay development & improved results. We will see these portlets below:
The Search portlet:
As inheritance nature the portal is a search provider and search portlet serves the purpose of performing federated search. It allows searching all above stated things and against plugin portlets similar like the alfresco content portlet it offers better and organized searching system. For those who wish to use this specific portlet below is the description to use it.
* When you arrive at Home of the community Guest vision you need to add there the Search portlet. Here is the place where you wish to perform the search activity.
* Next would be to enter the search criterion like My
* Select the Search button
Results would include everything stated initially in this article like blogs, documents etc. You will be able to see the search conclusions as a title teamed with a link in the display. When you gain proper permission on asset just click where the title is and have the view but in case here if the permission lacks then clicking similarly would result into an error view.
Customizing:
In Liferay development when you are in need to use the portlet Search in real then in various ways you can customize the portlet Search. As real task with customized process you can use it in themes. By tasking the relevant codes the Social office overrides the appeal and will discard the search options. It is obvious that you will be able to add the portlet Search as a runtime portlet here.
CSZ Search:
Here we can specify the city & state name and relevantly want to search the zip code. CSZ search portlet here proves useful and gets the result. Some following steps to perform are:
* Complete the installation of portlet CSZ, add CSZ search portlet in the page "Home" of community guest, perform the search
* Give the city name as "ABCD" and the state name as "ABCD"
* Click the Search button and you get the zip code
* As an option you can also enter the zip code initially then click on the Search button teaming up with city & state combination too then also the result here would be the zip code.
* Similarly as CSZ search portlet you can perform Maps search too where the same process lets you with the detailed view of Maps.
During a web content search you see a textbox that will enable end users to search for their desired web content from any website. Here the portlet is unable to search for any other content types like blogs, message board entries, wiki or such things.
