Site toolbar

The site toolbar is useful for managing and editing content day-to-day. It provides convenient access to many capabilities directly from the website. Content authors can create pages, add content and application to pages, and manage page parameters.

The site toolbar is available for immediate use after deploying the portal. The availability of the site toolbar is controlled by the theme. So we can disable it on the production server.

1 Menu options

There are three menu options: Site, Application, and Administration.

Use the Site menu to switch between the sites hosted on a single portal server.

Use the Application menu to access Content, Collaboration, Messaging, Personalization, and Unified Task List.

Use the Administration menu to access the administration portlets.

2 Toolbar

The toolbar provides access to authoring tools such as Projects, Create, and Page.

From the Projects tab, content authors create new projects to manage multiple changes. The tab displays the content created or changed in the website for that project. Each content item can be managed individually. The content author can also create project templates.

From the Create tab, content authors can create pages, add applications to a page, or add content to a page. The content shelf contains Web Content Viewer portlets preconfigured with content associations. When the content author drags content to the page, a copy of the associated content is added to the page. Then the content author can customize the content.

From the Page tab, content authors can view and modify page settings, such as layout, vanity URLs, and more.

3 Project indicator

The project indicator provides access to the project menu and displays the currently active project. If there is no active project, then the indicator shows "Published Site" and we are viewing the currently published website.

4 Edit Mode

Use the Edit Mode control to turn editing capability on and off.

5 Information Mode

Turns inline user assistance on and off. Inline assistance includes descriptions and examples that appear in the user interface and hover help.

Currently this mode is only implemented in the site toolbar.

6 Menu

Provides access to additional page and preview actions.

Page actions include: View Page Properties, Show Hidden Pages, Show Hidden Content, Move Page, and Delete Page.

Preview actions include: Preview as a specific user and preview as an unauthenticated user.

Site toolbar customization

The site toolbar is populated with the portlets that are immediately available after we deploy the portal. It includes a number of configured content viewers too. To customize the toolbar, we can:

• Add page templates to the Create Page tab

• Add new categories and applications to the Create Content tab

• Add configured content to the Create Content tab

Parent Authoring tools

Related concepts:

Customize the Content palette
Customize the Applications palette