Crawling a multilingual portal site

View the steps to set up search on a multilingual portal for users with different language preferences.

1. Create a separate crawler user ID for each language that your users might use for search. Set the language preference for each user ID to a different one of the required languages.
2. Create a portal content search collection for each language that your users might use. Set that language for the collection by selecting it from the pull-down list under Specify Collection Language.
3. Create a single content source for each of these collections. For each content source, select the crawler user ID that you created before so that the language preference setting matches the language of the collection to which each content source belongs.
4. Populate the collections by starting crawls on them. For load and performance reasons, run the crawls one after another rather than all at the same time. Refer to Memory required for crawls and the Time required for crawls and imports and availability of documents.
5. Create a scope, and add all collections that you just created. You can name this scope My preferred language.