USER AND SERVER CONFIGURATION
To support Domain Search, you need to designate a Domino server as the indexing server, which builds a domain wide index that all Domain Search queries run against. In order for the indexing server to build the index, you must first create a Domain Catalog on the server -- a database that controls which databases and file systems get indexed. The indexing server then spiders, or crawls, the servers that contain the content to be indexed.
When a user submits a query, the results that the indexing server returns contain only database documents to which that user has appropriate access.
If the indexing server is set up as a Domino Web server, it can support searches from both Lotus Notes and Web browsers.
For information on planning server resources, see the topic Server configurations for Domain Search.
Support for multiple languages
With Domain Search, you can index and search on documents regardless of their language. Even multiple-language documents can be indexed.
If users choose to display document summaries in their search results, Domain Search cannot create these summaries in all languages. You can use the NOTES.INI setting FT_Summ_Default_Language to specify which language the summary should default to in these cases.
For a list of languages in which Domain Search can create summaries, see the topic FT_Summ_Default_Language.
Domain Search and single-database full-text search
Single-database full-text indexing and domain indexing are distinct processes in Lotus Notes/Domino, and most likely you will want to use both.
Use Domain Search for less active databases such as archives and product specifications. Use full-text indexes for single databases for active databases such as mail files, discussion databases, problem-tracking databases, or any database used for generating reports. You might also want to have single-database full-text indexes on servers with restricted user access, or in cases where users already know what database they want to search in.
For more information, see the topic Creating and updating full-text indexes for single databases.
Implementing Domain Search
Implementing Domain Search in a Domino domain involves these major tasks: