User Management Guide

Production

The Production phase is the time that you make small changes to your Production environment. User management tasks might include making small changes to your portal application, such as adding an administrative user, adding a small number of portal users, adding a small number of groups, updating user profiles, and other maintenance tasks.

Some User Management tasks you can do in the Production phase might include the following:

Adding a new administrative user – See Creating Users for instructions
Creating a new group to reflect an organizational change – See Creating a Group or Subgroup
Updating a User Profile property set to collect different data about users – See Editing Properties and Values
Removing old data from Anonymous User Tracking – See Setting Up Anonymous User Tracking

If you add users or groups to your portal application in the Production phase, you must return to the Staging phase to test the functionality you created. This Staging environment simulates a Production environment.

The Production phase can be ongoing; some changes to your portal’s functionality might even require you to return to the Development phase and redeploy your portal application. Then you can move to the Staging phase to test your changes and go back to the Production phase.

In the Production phase, you might also modify other features, such as delegated administration and visitor entitlement roles and assignments, interaction management settings and queries, and desktops. See the Security Guide for more information on delegated administration and visitor entitlement. See the Interaction Management Guide for instructions on setting up interaction management.

For a description of the Production phase of the portal life cycle, see the WebLogic Portal Overview. The portal life cycle is shown in the following graphic: