Install the authoring portlet
Pages that include the WCM authoring portlet and the local rendering portlet are created when you first install WebSphere Portal. You only run the authoring portlet configuration task if you have previously uninstalled your authoring or local rendering portlets. The authoring portlet configuration task will automatically create WCM pages and install the authoring portlet and local rendering portlets.
- Open a command prompt.
- Run the configure-wcm-authoring task:
cd WP_PROFILE/ConfigEngine
./ConfigEngine.sh configure-wcm-authoring -DWasUserId=username -DWasPassword=wpsadmin- Log out of the portal and log back in.
- Select Web Content from WebSphere Portal banner to access the authoring portlet.
Installing the authoring portlet in a clustered environment
If the authoring portlet does not display after installation, you may need to activate the portlet.
Locale consistency
The language displayed in the authoring portlet is determined by the region or locale of the user. There are, however, some elements of the authoring portlet that use WebSphere Portal functions such as date selection fields. These will be displayed using the locale of the WebSphere Portal server. For this reason, the language and locales of the site being created, the client and server should be consistent.
If your site contains content in different languages, then a separate WCM authoring applications should be setup for each language on different WebSphere Portal Servers. These can then be combined into one site using a staging server.
If a user changes their locale, any currently opened WCM dialogs will be closed. A user will also have to start a new session before it is displayed using the new locale. It is best practice to have the client's correct locale set prior to using WCM .
Parent topic
Set up the authoring server