Explanation/Reference:
Note:
* From scenario:
Site Collections and Content
The web application includes the following three site collections.
1/ Board Member Site Collection
The Board Member site collection is only accessible to the board members so that they can view private company information.
The Board Member site collection has the following requirements:
- Only board members can log in to the site collection.
- A page within the site collection must display a list of all the board members.
- The website must be located at http://www.contoso.com/sites/board.
2/ Internet Site Collection
Requirements include:
Each member of the board must have a page that contains biographical information about that board member.
The list of board members must be available in the Board Member site collection.
3/ Agent Site Collection
* Main steps:
Create site collections for cross-site publishing
(Box 1, box2) Activate the Cross-Site Collection Publishing feature
Create and manage term sets for tagging content on authoring sites
Create catalog content by using SharePoint lists
(Box 3) Share a library or list as a catalog
Make a term set available to other site collections
(Box 5) Configure search for cross-site publishing
* Before you can use cross-site collection publishing to reuse content across site collections, you have to activate the Cross-Site Collection Publishing feature on the authoring site collection.
To activate the Cross-Site Collection Publishing feature
1. Verify that the user account that performs this procedure is a site collection administrator on the authoring site collection.
2. On the top-level site of the authoring site collection, on theSettingsmenu, clickSite Settings.
3. On theSite Settingspage, in theSite Collection Administrationsection, clickSite collection features.
4. On theSite Collection Featurespage, next toCross-Site Collection Publishing, clickActivate.
* Cross-site publishing is a new publishing method that lets you create and maintain content in one or more authoring site collections and publish this content in one or more publishing site collections by using Search Web Parts. Cross-site publishing complements the already existing publishing method, author-in- place, where you use a single site collection to author content and make it available to readers of your site.
Reference: Configure cross-site publishing in SharePoint Server 2013