Add The Search to a Publication

To make the external search service available in a particular publication, you need to add a ui:opensearch element (see opensearch) to the publication's content-type resource. The ui:opensearch element must be added as the child of a ui:group element. So you can either create a new ui:group for the ui:opensearch element, or add the ui:opensearch element to an existing ui:group.

For example:

<ui:group name="external-search">
  <ui:label>External</ui:label>
  <ui:opensearch name="search-plugin-name" src="external-service-name" mime-type="application/atom+xml;type=feed"/>
</ui:group>

The important points here are:

• The value of the name attribute (search-plugin-name) must be the component name you used registering your plug-in component (see Define a Named Service Resolver).

• The value of the src attribute (your-service-name) must be the service name you used when setting up the named service resolver (see Create a Search Plug-in Component).

Once you have done this and redeployed your content-type resource, then the search group External will appear in the Content Studio search panel. If you select it and execute a search, then only the external system will be searched. If you select the All group, then the external system will be search alongside the Content Engine and the results will be a mixture of external and internal results. You will also get mixed internal and external results if you create a ui:group that contains both ui:opensearch and ui:ref-content-type elements.

You need to add similar entries to the content-type resources of all publications in which the external search functionality is required.