Get started with delivering web content on a portal page

The building blocks for delivering web content in a portal are web content viewers, web content page templates, and content mappings. These pieces provide a flexible framework that we can use to quickly assemble pages.

To help you get started, sample web content is also included in preinstalled libraries. The sample content demonstrates how the pieces work, and we can also adapt the sample content for the own use.

• Web content viewers
  Web content viewers are portlets that render content from a web content library as part of a portal page. If the presentation is simple, a single viewer can be sufficient. To provide a richer experience for the users, use multiple viewers to aggregate content from different libraries.

• Web content pages and templates
  Web content pages are portal pages that are associated with content managed in IBM Web Content Manager. Similar to web content pages, web content templates are page templates that are associated with content in Web Content Manager.

• Web content associations
  Web content associations map portal pages to the site structure in the IBM Web Content Manager system. We can define a default content association and multiple other associations, used for dynamic page resolution. For each page, there is also a system content association that maps the page to its corresponding portal page site area in the Portal Site library.

• Create content with sample web content template items
  To illustrate how page templates, web content viewers, and content associations work together, IBM WCM provides sample web content. The sample content includes examples of web content template pages and predefined portlets that we can add to pages to render content.

• Link examples for web content viewers
  Web content viewers can broadcast and receive links to communicate with other viewers. Depending on the link settings that we use with the viewers, the behavior of the viewers can be different. These examples demonstrate how different broadcast and receive settings can affect what a viewer renders.

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