Webcenter Spaces Search Customizations

Webcenter Spaces PS3 OOTB Search.

How many of you are just simply happy and never had to bite your teeth with the Webcenter Spaces OOTB Search with Webcenter Search adapter?

I had to work continuously 5 months to resolve a search issue. The ‘Search failed recognizing the document type in the results’ causing unexpected behavior.

Hopefully that was specific to our environment, but after 5 months of research, a UCM Server configuration got corrupted, it needed a tedious procedure to get it back, some steps had to be done in UCM by keeping the Spaces Managed server down even. Let me know if you have that issue. The first sign would be, if you search for a pdf in Webcenter, it won’t show you the icon and from there on, everything will go wrong.

Note: The comments in this blogs is based on the complexity of the implementation and how extensively the search has been used.

I am working on Webcenter Spaces from past 3-4 years and I have both good and severely bad experiences with Webcenter Spaces Search.

I would like to share few techniques with you and would also like to know what are the challenges you are facing and try to see if I can help and a bigger help for new implementers.

In my current platform Webcenter Spaces PS3, we have three distinct portals (Spaces), with completely different security groups and completely different Search Content.

So I felt that was a good thing, with the GUID, I was able to separate the search, even though Webcenter is one application. Somehow you won’t find everything related to search in one Oracle Doc. Initially I got the answer from Oracle SR that, the search cannot be separated. I myself personally know few companies, have separate physical server instances of same Webcenter Spaces installation for separating their search !

I will update on the following topics in the coming days. Let me know which one you are more curious to know.

• How to separate the Search for each Space with ‘guid’ and Related Details.
• How to separate the search for a different security group in UCM.
• How to extend and customize the search.
• Auto suggest Search. (Custom implementation using RIDC Service)
• Removing Maximise links, open in word etc from the popup, using customizations.
• Removing Services, people connections, discussion forums from Search.
• Change the number of Search Results
• Remove Author name etc, using Seeded MDS Taskflow Customizations from JDev.

Implementation approach

How to separate the Search for each Space with ‘guid’ and Related Details.

Removing Maximize links, open in word etc from the popup, using customizations.

This can be done directly from the Webcenter Administration in the browser level.

Primarily you have to edit Search Taskflow and Document Taskflow based on your needs.

Resources >> Pages >> System Pages and update the following taskflows :

1. Search

2. Document