Part IV

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 Section 9.1, "Creating Users" for instructions

• Creating a new group to reflect an organizational change – See Section 8.2, "Creating a Group or Subgroup"

• Updating a User Profile property set to collect different data about users – See Section 5.2, "Editing Properties and Values"

• Removing old data from Anonymous User Tracking – See Section 7.2, "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 Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Guide for Oracle WebLogic Portal for more information on delegated administration and visitor entitlement. See the Oracle Fusion Middleware Interaction Management Guide for Oracle WebLogic Portal for instructions on setting up interaction management.

For a detailed description of the architecture phase of the portal life cycle, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Overview for Oracle WebLogic Portal.