For information on how users perform domain searches, see the topic "Searching for information in applications in your domain" in Lotus Notes Help.

Using Policies

After you set up a Domain Search server for a IBM® Lotus® Domino® domain, you can use policies to automate the process of setting up Domain Search for Notes users in that domain. Record the name of the Domain Search server in the desktop policy settings document. Whenever existing users authenticate with their home server, Lotus Notes checks desktop policy settings and updates the current Location document with the name of the Domain Search server.

Manual setup from a Notes workstation

The following circumstances require users to set up Domain Search at their workstations.

• A new user wants to do a domain search before the workstation has authenticated with its home server.
• A user wants to be able to do domain searches from alternate Notes locations.
• A user wants to do a domain search in a Domino domain other than the one to which the user belongs.

1. Start the Notes client.

2. Choose File - Mobile - Edit Current Location.

3. Do the following for each location for which you want to use Domain Search:

1. Click the Servers tab.
2. In the "Catalog/domain search server" field, enter the name of the indexing server.
3. Click Save and Close.

Tip If users enter the name of an indexing server in a Domino domain other than their own but you have included the name of their indexing server in the desktop policy settings applied to them, the "Catalog/domain search server" field reverts to the policy setting the next time the users authenticate with their home server. To preserve links to an indexing server in another Domino domain, users can bookmark the search form from that server while they are performing a search.

Related topics

Domain Search
Policies
Creating a desktop policy settings document

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