Portal to Portal Federated Search

Question

Hi All,
There is probably a really simple answer to this but I'm having difficulties seeing it at the moment. As you can see from the title I'm trying to configure a federated search to search for documents within another portal instance. I've read the admin guide, online help & various discussion and yet I'm still none the wiser.
I understand that when you install the portal (v5.0.4) you get an incoming federated search for free. This allows someobdy to search as guest user. What I also assume is that on the portal which will be doing the search I need to set up a Outgoing federated search. Is this correct? If so then no problem but the question is that this needs to be based on a Web service. The documentation points to the EDK search API to develope this and hence the problem. I'm not familar with search web services so not sure what I should be aiming to return? Or infact anything that should be contained.
I'm developing in Java and have looked at the 2 examples but still feel lost. Can anyone point me in the right direction or further explain what I should be trying to achieve and how to get there.
Many thanks, Adam

Answer 1

Hi Rani,
see my answers bellow:
1. You mean you are in the Room Maintenance iView and add a new room member, and you can give him any role but the owner role? That's strange. Could you send me a screenshot?
2. By default, the search for rooms, for example, in the room directory, in the room list, in room administration, or in the room relations manager, is performed using the SAP search engine Search and Classification (TREX). If you deactivate the TREX search for rooms or you have not installed TREX with the portal, the system switches automatically to the Content Management search function (CM search).
Here the link for more info: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/6b/4e9442c22d1131e10000000a1550b0/content.htm
3. Here the definition from SAPHelp: "A federated portal network allows organizations with distributed portal installations, both SAP and non-SAP, to provide a single portal access point per user to portal information, services and applications distributed on portals throughout the entire organizational network. This implementation allows existing content and configurations to be utilized, and to minimize necessary administration efforts". So you were right about your assumptions. Here you find more information: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/67/7e70424edcc553e10000000a1550b0/content.htm
Hope this helps,
Robert