Cross-site publishing will allow us to create and maintain
the content in one or more authoring Site Collections. It will allow us to
publish and access the content one or more site collections. We can use cross
site publishing when we want to save and manage the content in one more
authoring sites. We can use cross site publishing across the site collections,
web applications and farms. It will allow us to mix the pages and catalog
content.
Cross site publishing will use search to retrieve the
content. When we create Content in a list/library of a site collection where
cross-site publishing is enabled and we need to enable the list/libraries as
catalogs. When we crawl the content, content will added to search index. We can
add the web parts in other site collections where we wanted to display the
content. When users view the page, search webparts crawls the data by passing
the queries to search index. Query results will return from search index and
shown in the Search Web Parts. When we change any content in the source site
collection, all the data will be updated in destination site collection after
crawling the data.
We can proceed with cross site publishing by creating
authoring site collection and publishing site collection. Structure for cross
site publishing will looks like following.
To create authoring site collection, create new site
collection by navigating Application Management, Create site collection in
Central Administration and select Product catalog in Publishing tab.
To create publishing portal, create new site collection by
navigating Application Management, Create site collection in Central
Administration and select Publishing portal in publishing tab.
After creating the site collections, we need to activate
Cross-site Publishing feature in authoring site collection. We can activate the
cross site publishing feature By Navigating t Site Collection features in the
site settings, Click on Activate button for Cross-site Collection Publishing
feature.
We need to add the content in the authorized site collection
list and crawl the content. We can look in to the next articles.
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