Enable managed pages

By default, support for managed pages is enabled for the default virtual portal. However, we can also manually enable this support if managed pages are disabled.

Important: Do not attempt to enable managed pages on a server where managed pages are already enabled. If you previously disabled managed pages and want to re-enable the feature, ensure that the Portal Site library is empty first. If you fail to remove page artifacts from the previous configuration, the resulting portal might not work properly.

When support for managed pages is enabled for a virtual portal, all pages in the virtual portal are copied into the Portal Site library in Web Content Manager. However, the following pages are not treated as managed pages and are not copied:

• Administration pages, as identified by the label ibm.portal.Administration and its children

• Private pages

Each virtual portal has its own Portal Site library.

To take advantage of the features available to managed pages in the user interface, the pages must use the Portal 8.0 theme.

1. Start the portal server.

2. To enable support for managed pages, run the enable-managed-pages task from the WP_PROFILE/ConfigEngine.

   Windows

   ConfigEngine.bat enable-managed-pages -DPortalAdminPwd=foo -DWasPassword=foo

   AIX Linux Solaris

   ./ConfigEngine.sh enable-managed-pages -DPortalAdminPwd=foo -DWasPassword=foo

   IBM i

   ConfigEngine.sh enable-managed-pages -DPortalAdminPwd=foo -DWasPassword=foo

   After running the enable-managed-pages task for the first time, the property managed.pages is created in the WP WPConfigService configuration service. The value of the property is set to true.

3. Restart the portal server.

4. To populate web content libraries with information about virtual portals in the system, run the create-virtual-portal-site-nodes task from the WP_PROFILE/ConfigEngine. For each virtual portal, this task creates a library and a site area called lost-found for resources that cannot be properly located. If the library or site area exist, the task exits. By default, the task runs on all virtual portals in the system.

   Windows

   ConfigEngine.bat create-virtual-portal-site-nodes -DPortalAdminPwd=foo -DWasPassword=foo

   AIX Linux Solaris

   ./ConfigEngine.sh create-virtual-portal-site-nodes -DPortalAdminPwd=foo -DWasPassword=foo

   IBM i

   ConfigEngine.sh create-virtual-portal-site-nodes -DPortalAdminPwd=foo -DWasPassword=foo

5. To populate web content libraries with information about the portal pages in the system, run the create-page-nodes task from the WP_PROFILE/ConfigEngine.

   This task can also be used when portal pages and managed pages artifacts in Web Content Manager are not synchronized. In this case, the task attempts to resynchronize the portal artifacts and web content artifacts, giving precedence to the portal artifacts.

   Performance note: Depending on the amount of information in the system, the create-page-nodes task can take a long time to run. Because of the database load of the task, it is not recommended run the task frequently. The initial run of the task requires the most time, while subsequent runs typically require less time.

   Windows

   ConfigEngine.bat create-page-nodes -DPortalAdminPwd=foo -DWasPassword=foo

   AIX Linux Solaris

   ./ConfigEngine.sh create-page-nodes -DPortalAdminPwd=foo -DWasPassword=foo

   IBM i

   ConfigEngine.sh create-page-nodes -DPortalAdminPwd=foo -DWasPassword=foo

   By default, this task is performed on all pages in all virtual portals. To limit this task to a specific virtual portal, identify the virtual portal by adding one of the following parameters to the command line. Each parameter requires the prefix -D on the command line.

   VirtualPortalHost

   Specify the host name of the virtual portal. For example, vp.example.com.

   Important: If the host name of the virtual portal is the same as the host name of the default virtual portal, also specify the VirtualPortalContext property. We can specify the VirtualPortalHost property by itself only if the host name is unique.

   VirtualPortalContext

   Specify the virtual portal context that identifies the virtual portal. For example, vp1.

   We can customize the task with the following optional parameters on the command line. Each parameter requires the prefix -D on the command line.

   RunParallel

   Indicate whether we want the task to run with multiple threads. A value of false indicates a single thread and is the default setting.

   A value of true indicates multiple threads, as specified by the work manager wpsJcrSyncWorkManager in the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console. Each thread requires a database connection. For optimal performance, ensure that your database connection pool supports at least as many connections as there are threads in the pool.

   Excluded

   Specify a list of unique names of page nodes to exclude from the creation process. Excluding a page also excludes its child pages. By default, the portal administration pages (ibm.portal.Administration) are excluded.

6. Optional: If we used web content pages before enabling managed pages, we can transfer the content associated with those pages to the Portal Site library. For details on performing this transfer, see Transfer content associations to the Portal Site library.

Parent: Configure managed pages

Related:

Transfer content associations to the Portal Site library