Production

The Production phase allows you to update and change Personalization in your production environment.

Some of the Interaction Management tasks you can perform in the Production phase could include the following:

Change a Campaign to revise its end date - See Modifying a Campaign.
Edit a Placeholder or Content Selector to change the content they display - See Modifying a Placeholder or Deleting a Content Selector Query.
Update property set properties to change your audience - See Modifying Properties and Conditions.
Fine tune Content Selectors to change how often content is refreshed - See Modifying a Content Selector.
Enable an audit trail of content changes to the virtual content repository - See Tracking Content Changes.
Add custom events, listeners, and property sets to a deployed application - These changes require application redeployment for the events and CLASSPATH updates, and you must run the BEA Propagation Utility to update the event properties in the database. See the Production Operations Guide.

If you change Personalization features in your portal application in the Production phase, you should return to the Staging phase to test the functionality. This staging environment should simulate a Production environment. The one exception to this process is using the rules files. During development, the rules files reload when they change (just like JSPs), so you can quickly develop with Content Selectors. However, when the server is in production mode, Content Selectors are loaded into the database (from the file-based definitions in the application) where they can be modified in the WebLogic Portal Administration Portal without redeploying the application or restarting the server.

The Production phase can be ongoing; you can move iteratively between the Staging phase and the Production phase.

You might also modify other features, such as Delegated Administration and Visitor Entitlement roles and assignments, in the Production phase. See the Security Guide for more information.

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:

Interaction Management Guide

Production