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Expose headless Experience Cloud knowledge search to external support portals

Real World Scenario

Partner support portal needs federated search across Experience Cloud Knowledge and Service Cloud articles without exposing full CRM to partners.

Expected Answer

• Use Experience Cloud headless knowledge APIs or custom search REST with article visibility filters • Enforce data category and audience scoping so partners see only entitled articles • Return search results with snippets, ratings, and deep links to headless article renderer • Implement search analytics feeding content gap analysis back to knowledge managers • Cache popular search queries with TTL respecting article publish and archive events • Rate limit search API preventing scraping of entire knowledge base • Fallback messaging when search index lagging after major publish batch

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Main difference: use case and scale. Use Experience Cloud headless knowledge APIs or custom search REST with article visibility filters. Enforce data category and audience scoping so partners see only entitled articles. Pick based on your integration pattern and team capability. Headless knowledge search must replicate visibility rules of Experience Cloud—API exposure without audience filters causes partner data leaks. Balance speed of delivery with maintainability.

Architect Perspective

Headless knowledge search must replicate visibility rules of Experience Cloud—API exposure without audience filters causes partner data leaks.