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

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.

1. Test the page on the target server to ensure that it is correct.
2. If necessary, select the server where the published page resides by performing the following steps:

   1. Right click on Select a server.
   2. Click Select Server > servername.

      A message displays saying that the server was retrieved successfully.

   3. Click on the plus sign next to the server name to expand the server's site tree.
3. Right click on the label or page or URL that you wish to promote, then click Promote this page. If you promote a label or a URL, the promotion takes place without further prompting. When promoting a page, or a page subtree, choose a customization option, as described in the table below.

   Promoted item	Customization options
   Label or URL on the target server	No customization options.
   Single page on the target server	Promote this page . . . And remove customization Choose this option to: discard any shared settings that were defined on the page change the order of pages to match, if necessary if republishing an existing page, replace previous page properties such at title or these, with properties of the newer page replace any multiple properties such as metadata, locales or wires replace any existing layout information with layout from the newer page But preserve customization Choose this option to keep any shared settings that were defined on the page change the order of pages to match, if necessary if republishing an existing page, replace previous page properties such at title or these, with properties of the current page append any multiple properties such as metadata, locales or wires append any existing layout information with layout from the newer page
   Page subtree on the target server	Promote this page . . . To add and update pages and remove customization Choose this option if the subtree already exists on your target server. This option adds new pages to the existing subtree on the target server, updates existing pages in the subtree, and preserves pages that only exist within the subtree on the source server, but discards any shared settings that were defined on the page. To add and update pages but preserve customization Choose this option if your subtree already exists on your target server. This option adds new pages to the existing subtree on the target server, updates existing pages in the subtree, and preserves pages that only exist within the subtree on the source server while keeping any shared settings that were defined on the page. To create a duplicate sub tree and remove customization Choose this option if the subtree does not exist on your target server and you want to duplicate the subtree on the source server, but discard any shared settings that were defined on the page. You can also choose this option if the subtree already exists on the target server but you want to delete that subtree and replace it with the subtree from the target server without keeping any shared settings that were defined on the page. To create a duplicate sub tree but preserve customization Choose this option if the subtree does not exist on your target server and you want to duplicate the subtree on the source server while keeping any shared settings that were defined on the page. You can also choose this option if the subtree already exists on the target server but you want to delete that subtree and replace it with the subtree from the target server while keeping any shared settings that were defined on the page.