SearchSG Admin Portal User Guide

Key Concepts - How does SearchSG Admin Portal Work?

Projects are designed as a subscription framework that consolidates all resources / configurations related to your tenant within a shared environment.
Allows you to organise the apps you create into different groups for easier management.
Add editors into each project to collaborate together. Editors will only be able access the projects they are added to.

An index serves as a repository for your documents, acting as a searchable knowledge base. It can contain one or more data sources that sync your data with the SearchSG platform.
Indexes you create for a project can be shared across all the apps within the same project. For example, if you create an index in the “SearchSG” project, you can test the index on a staging site (e.g. stg.search.gov.sg) then use the same index on a production site (e.g. prod.search.gov.sg).

Data sources are the building blocks of a search index, determining what content users can find when they search.
Data source connectors facilitate data syncing and indexing, either through web scraping or by connecting to your APIs.
- Web Data Source: Utilize our web crawlers to scrape publicly accessible websites, automatically crawling and re-indexing data on a daily basis.
- API Data Source: Connect to your APIs to poll for data updates, enabling automatic updates and re-indexing on an hourly basis.
- Push API Data Source: Push your updated content and files by sending data to our API endpoints at your preferred timing.

A site refers to a website or server-side application that integrates with SearchSG.
It serves as a workspace for multiple applications, such as Search and Recommend, requiring only a one-time integration to enable the use of multiple application features.

An application encapsulates all configurations for a specific search / recommend feature deployed on your site.
- Example: search bar settings and filter configurations for your search app are managed under ‘Applications’.