Summary

  PloneRSSSearch is a tool that allows you to configure external Plone sites that can be searched based on 
  the 'search_rss' file that is provided in any Plone 2.x site.

Install

  Use QuickInstaller through the ZMI, or the Plone Control Panel's "Add/Remove Products" facility.

How it works

  Once installed, the Plone site members, including Anonymous, can get remote "public" contents (contents that Anonymous can see according to the site's policy) 
  that match their search, in addition to the local results.

  If the member of the site is also a member of the remote site (with the same user account and password), he gets matching "published" contents in the results list (again, if this is allowed by the remote site's policy).

  Note : The functionnality is already integrated to Plone by the addition of a customized version of Plone's 'search.pt' template, but you can also quickly test it by invoking a URL such as :

  http://myplonesite/rsssearch?plonesite_url=http://remoteplonesite&SearchableText=plone

TODO

  Currently only does search using SearchableText. We should provide search by any criteria (such as 'portal_type').