Administrator Guide

Welcome

Typographical Conventions

BEA Documentation and Resources

Introduction to Publisher

About Publisher

Publisher Features

Overview of Content Creation and Publishing

Publisher Features and Editors

Publisher Intrinsic Portlets

Publisher Users and Roles

Publisher Roles

Publisher Personas

Publisher Architecture

Publisher Components

ALI Components

Using Publisher Explorer

About Publisher Explorer

Navigating Publisher Explorer

Using the Path Bar

Using the Navigation Pane

Using the Table Pane

Using the Action Bar

Using the Context Menu

Viewing the Status Icons

Setting Display Preferences

Setting up and Securing the Publisher Folder Structure

Defining Your Folder Structure and Managing Folders

Publisher Folder Structure

Creating New Folders

Publisher Explorer

Published Content Portlet Folders

Setting Up Security

Publisher Security Overview

Publisher Roles

Publisher and Workflow Activity Rights

Assigning the Administer Publisher and Configure Workflow Activity Rights

Assigning Users and Roles to Publisher Folders

Mapping Portal Security to Publisher Security

Configuring Publishing Targets and Preview Sites

Publishing Targets and Preview Sites

Configuring the Publishing Target and Preview Site for the Root Folder

Configuring the Publishing Target and Preview Site for All Other Folders

Using WebDAV

Enabling WebEdit

Client Security Settings

Enabling the Map a Web Folder Feature

Mapping a Folder

Configuring WebDAV Settings

Enabling and Disabling WebDAV Features Using Content.Properties

Enabling and Disabling WebEdit by File Types

Configuring IIS

Creating Published Content Portlets

Creating and Editing Published Content Portlets Using Sample Portlet Templates

Sample Published Content Portlet Templates

Announcement Portlet Template

News Portlet Template

Community Directory Portlet Template

Main Page

Folder Page

Article Pages

Creating a New Published Content Portlet

Configuring the Published Content Portlet with the Configure Portlet Wizard

Editable Objects in Sample Published Content Portlet Templates

Info Article and HowTo Article

Setting Publisher Security for Published Content Portlets

Default Publisher Folder Security for Published Content Portlets

Portal Security Mapping for Published Content Portlets

Managing Published Content Portlet Folders

Creating and Editing Branding Portlets

Creating and Editing Published Content Portlets Using the Published Content Web Service

Creating Published Content Portlets Using the Published Content Web Service:

Deleting a Published Content Portlet

Creating and Editing Content Items

Creating and Editing Content Items Using Content Item Editor

Uploading and Managing File Content Items

Uploading File Content Items

Editing and Managing File Content Items Using WebDAV

Copying, Moving, Renaming, and Deleting Content Items

Publishing and Expiring Content

About Publishing

Publishing Content Items

Publication Requirements

Publishing Using Publisher Explorer

Publishing Using Content Item Editor

Scheduling Publishing and Expiration

Publishing Content Items to the Knowledge Directory Using the Content Item Editor or Publisher Explorer

Publishing Content Items to the Knowledge Directory Using the Publisher Crawler

Publishing to External Web Sites

Setting Published Content Items to Expire

About Expiration

Setting a Content Item to Expire

Undoing Expiration

Creating Data Entry Templates

About Data Entry Templates

Overview

Property Types Available for Data Entry Templates

Defining Selection Lists

Sample Data Entry Templates

Creating and Editing Data Entry Templates

Launching the Data Entry Template Editor

Using the Data Entry Template Editor

Adding Properties

Copying, Moving, Renaming, and Deleting Data Entry Templates

Creating Presentation Templates

Creating and Editing Presentation Templates

Using the Presentation Template Editor

Using a WYSIWYG Editor

Creating an Independently Publishable Presentation Template

Copying, Moving, Renaming, and Deleting Presentation Templates

Presentation Template Code

Publisher Elements (PCS Tags)

Value Element <pcs:value>

Date Formatting

Conditional Element <pcs:if>

Iterator Element <pcs:foreach>

Auxiliary Variables

Include Element <pcs:include>

Insert Element <pcs:insert>

HTML Element <pcs:html>

Style and Content Attributes

Property Names

System-Defined Properties

Expressions

Using Tag Helper to Write Presentation Template Code

Using CSS and JavaScript Files

Presentation Template Tools

content_item.jsp

create_folder.jsp

search.jsp

Configuring Custom Portlet Templates

About Published Content Portlet Templates

Creating and Configuring Published Content Portlet Templates

Prerequisites

Accessing the Configure Portlet Template Wizard

Using the Main Settings Page

Using the Advanced Settings Page

Using the Object Categories Page

Using the Template Security Page

Using the Portlet Security Page

Saving the Portlet Template

Using Workflow

About Workflow

Setting Up Workflow

Assigning the Configure Workflow Activity Right

Setting Up Workflow Notifications

Defining and Editing Workflows

Creating a Workflow

Launching the Workflow Editor

Using the Workflow Editor

Attaching Workflow to Folders

Handling Workflow

Submitting a Content Item to Workflow

Approving, Rejecting, Transferring, Claiming and Delegating

Handling Work Items Using the Content Item Editor

Handling Work Items Using the Publisher Work List Portlet

Selecting Publisher Work List Portlet Views

Approving Items Using the Publisher Work List Portlet

Rejecting Items Using the Publisher Work List Portlet

Claiming and Undoing Claims Using the Publisher Work List Portlet

Transferring and Delegating Workflow Assignments Using the Publisher Work List Portlet

Setting Publisher Work List Portlet Preferences

Viewing Workflow Assignment Details

Overriding Workflow

Viewing Items in Workflow by Publisher Folder

Setting Preferences for the Content Items in Workflow Portlet

Migrating Publisher Objects