Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1 Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux,Windows

Managing your site

You can create pages, labels, and URLs on a source server and publish them to other servers using the Resource Manager portlet. Once you publish your page, you can do additional testing on the target server before promoting the page to all users and groups with the appropriate access rights.

Example scenario: A large retail furniture company has a test portal and a production portal. The portal administrator creates a page for a special sofa promotion on the test portal, and publishes it to the production portal. Because the page is published but not yet promoted, it can be viewed by a limited set of users, including the marketing manager and the head of sales. When these reviewers initially look at the page, they request revisions to some of the page content. The administrator can modify the page on the test server and republish it to the source server as many times as necessary. Once the reviewers approve the page, the administrator is ready to promote the page to make it visible to all the furniture company sales staff who access the production server. On the first day of the sofa promotion, the administrator promotes the page on the production portal. When the promotion period is over, the administrator demotes the page on the production portal. Users can then no longer view the page.

These topics provide more information on publishing, promoting and demoting pages using Site Management.

• Enabling remote access to your servers
  Before you can begin to manage your site, run a task that allows you to remotely access all target and source servers from the server where you will manage your site. There are additional steps perform on the server where you will manage your site if any of the servers are enabled for Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
• Managing your servers
  Before you can begin to manage your site using the Site Management page, add the source and target servers to the Resource Manager portlet. After adding the servers to the portlet, you can edit and remove servers and manage access to the servers.
• Publishing your page
  After you have created and tested your page, which can be a page, label, or URL, you can publish it to a target server. The publish task can be performed using the Site Management page, or using a JACL script. This topic describes publishing through the Site Management page.
• Providing reviewer access to a published page
  A special personalization rule is used to make a published page visible to a specific set of users, who will review the page before it is promoted. You can customize this rule to control which users can review the page.
• Promoting your page
  After you publish your page to the target server and have tested it, you can promote the page so that all users on the target server with the appropriate access rights can view the page.
• Demoting your page
  After you promote your page on the target server, you can demote the page so that the page is no longer visible on the target server. The page returns to a published state.
• Republishing and promoting a page
  When you make changes to a promoted page, you can republish the page and promote it again to update the version that users can see on the target server. When you promote the page again, one previous version of the page is maintained on the server so that you can back out changes if necessary.
• Creating a portal page from an HTML file
  Starting with a static HTML file, or an HTML fragment, you can create a new portal page. If you revise the HTML, you can refresh the page to render the changes in the portal.
• Disabling site management
  If you want to prevent administrative users from publishing, promoting or demoting pages using Site Management, you can disable the site management functions by running the disable task.
• Site management extension of the Portal Scripting Interface
  You can use the site management extension bean of the Portal Scripting Interface to publish, promote, or demote portal content.