Setting Up and Managing Web Magazines

This chapter provides an overview of Web Magazine and discusses how to:

Click to jump to parent topicUnderstanding Web Magazine

This section discusses:

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicWeb Magazine Overview

Web Magazine is an online publishing feature that enables users to create and publish collections of content such as department newsletters, policy handbooks, or mini-web sites through a graphical format. Web Magazine provides a way to communicate information to people in the organization who have access to the PeopleSoft portal.

Moving communications from printed materials to web publications greatly reduces printing costs without sacrificing graphical quality. Moreover, you can easily update and distribute web-based information.

Web Magazine includes the Web Magazines pagelet, which lists current and historical issues under a publication heading. The cover page is the first page that you see after selecting an issue. This page is your main navigation point to the rest of the publication. Common features of the cover page include the title bar and the publication navigation bar. You click links on the cover page to access other parts of the publication.

This is an example of a web magazine cover page:

Note. Web magazines point to a single layout.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicWeb Magazine Hierarchy

Web Magazine presents information in the form of a hierarchy as shown in this diagram:

Hierarchical presentation of information within a Web Magazine

Within this framework, you can organize information to suit your needs.

Example Hierarchy

PeopleTalk Online is a publication, and September - October 2004 is an issue that includes a particular collection of articles. Industry is a section, and Manufacturing is a category within that section. Within the Manufacturing category, the JPM Company Aces Quick Response to Customers article appears.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicWeb Magazine Viewing Security

 

To set up pagelet and magazine viewing security:

  1. Select Portal Administration, Navigation, Structure and Content.

  2. In the Folders section, click the Portal Administration link and then click the Pagelets link.

  3. Click the Edit link for Web Magazine folder.

  4. Select the Folder Security tab.

    The Folder Security page appears.

  5. Select the Public option if no restriction exists for accessing the Web Magazines pagelet.

    Alternatively, to grant access selectively to the Web Magazines pagelet, select the Permission List option and select the appropriate permission lists.

This is an example of the Folder Security page:

See Also

PeopleSoft-Delivered Security Data

Enterprise PeopleTools 8.50 PeopleBook: Security Administration, “Setting Up Roles”

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicWeb Magazine Benefits

This table describes some of the benefits of using the Web Magazine feature:

Benefit

Description

Content is stored and managed separately from the page presentation layout.

Web objects, such as text and images, can be reused, updated, or retired to provide a real-time, dynamic web publication using HTML templates.

Content components are stored in a centralized repository in a PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal database.

This repository is separate from the Content Management repository.

Presentation templates can be customized for any type of web page.

Templates for the front cover page, sections, and article pages are delivered with PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal to give you a quick start.

Click to jump to parent topicSetting Up Web Magazines

The section discusses how to:

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicPages Used to Set Up a Web Magazine

Page Name

Definition Name

Navigation

Usage

Publication

EO_PE_PUBWP

Portal Administration, Pagelets, Web Magazine, Publications

Add or update information about a publication.

Issue

EO_PE_ISSUEWP

Portal Administration, Pagelets, Web Magazine, Issues

Add or edit information about an issue of a publication.

Section

EO_PE_SECTIONWP

Portal Administration, Pagelets, Web Magazine, Sections

Add or edit information about a section of an issue.

Category

EO_PE_CATEGORYWP

Portal Administration, Pagelets, Web Magazine, Categories

Create and store all the information about a category of a section.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicCreating Publications

Access the Publication page (select Portal Administration, Pagelets, Web Magazine, Publications).

Use this page to create a new publication or edit the names of existing publications.

Long Name

Enter the name that will appear on setup pages.

Short Name

Enter the name that will appear on the Web Magazines pagelet.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicCreating New Issues

Access the Issue page (select Portal Administration, Pagelets, Web Magazine, Issues).

Use this page to create new issues for publications. Enter an effective date that determines when the issue will become available on the Web Magazine pagelet. Volume and sequence numbers are informational only and not used by the system.

Specifying Back Issues

Use PeopleSoft Application Designer to specify the number of back issues that will appear on the Web Magazines pagelet. The delivered value is a maximum of five issues for each publication.

To specify the number of back issues that will appear:

  1. Modify the function IScript_BuildWPPagelet() in WEBLIB_WEBPUB.EO_PE_PUB.FieldFormula.

  2. Scan for all occurrences of &RowMax and set it to the desired number.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Sections of a Publication

Access the Section page (select Portal Administration, Pagelets, Web Magazine, Sections).

Use this page to define the different sections of a publication.

Sequence Number

The sequence number designates the placement of the section in the publication: 1 for the first section, 2 for the second section, and so on.

Image ID

Select an ID that the Web Magazine template use to reference the section image.

On Image ID

Select an ID for an image that appears in the section navigation bar when the user is in this section.

Off Image ID

Select an ID for an image that appears in the section navigation bar when the user is not in this section.

See Also

Maintaining Graphic Images

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicDefining Section Categories

Access the Category page (select Portal Administration, Pagelets, Web Magazine, Categories).

Use this page to define categories for each section of the publication. The selected category image appears in the Web Magazine template.

Click to jump to parent topicMaintaining Graphic Images

This section discusses how to register images.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicRegistering Images

Access the Image page (EO_PE_IMGWP) (select Portal Administration, Pagelets, Web Magazine, Images).

Use this page to add, edit, and register the images that you want to use with Web Magazine articles.

Note. Before creating articles, you must set up issue definitions and place the images you want to use in the proper directory for Web Magazine to access.

ID

Displays the unique value entered on the Search page.

An ID is a key field and it cannot be altered after it is entered.

Image Name

Enter the name of the image.

You may want to prefix the name with an indication of the use of the image; for example, cover, section, category, title, or article.

Float Over Text

Enter the text that appears when the user moves the cursor over the image.

Alignment

Select the image alignment.

Available options are Absbottom, Absmiddle, Baseline, Bottom, Left, Middle, Right, Textop, or Top.

Vertical Spacing

Enter the number of pixels on the top and bottom of the image for vertical spacing.

Horizontal Spacing

Enter the number of pixels on the left and right of the image for horizontal spacing.

Height, Border Width, and Width

Enter the number of pixels for the image height, border width, and width.

Source

Enter the relative path on the web server where the image file is located.

Note. You must manually add the image to the web server directory that is specified in this field.

File Name

Enter the file name of the image.

View Image

Click to preview the image.

Click to jump to parent topicCreating and Publishing Articles

This section discusses how to:

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicPages Used to Create and Publish Articles

Page Name

Definition Name

Navigation

Usage

Article

EO_PE_ARTICLEWP1

Portal Administration, Pagelets, Web Magazine, Articles

Add and maintain general information about an article, including the title and summary, image assignment, and placement in a publication.

Article Text

EO_PE_ARTICLEWP2

Portal Administration, Pagelets, Web Magazine, Articles

Select the Article Text tab on the Article page.

Add, edit, or view the text of the article.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicCreating Articles

Access the Article page (select Portal Administration, Pagelets, Web Magazine, Articles).

Use this page to capture information that will be used later by the magazine template code when it renders the article in the portal.

Publication and Issue

Displays the publication and issue where this article will appear.

ID

Displays the unique value entered on the Search page.

An ID is a key field and it cannot be altered after it is entered.

Sequence number

Enter the article sequence number to specify the order in which you want the article to appear in the section.

Title, Sub Title, and Author

Enter the article title, subtitle, and the name of the article’s author.

Section ID and Category ID

Choose the publication section and category where this article will appear.

Title Image ID and Article Image ID

Enter the title and article image IDs for this article.

Click to jump to top of pageClick to jump to parent topicAdding Article Text

Access the Article Text page (select Portal Administration, Pagelets, Web Magazine, Articles; and select the Article Text tab).

Summary

Enter summary text for this article.

Body

Enter the full article in plain text or HTML format.

Click to jump to parent topicWorking With the Web Magazine Pagelet

Access the Web Magazine pagelet (click the Content link from the menu bar on the homepage and then select the Web Magazine option in the Personalize Content page).

The Web Magazine pagelet lists current and historical issues under a publication heading. Issues are sorted in descending order according to the effective date of the issue. The pagelet does not list all back issues because it lists a maximum of five issues by default. You can customize the pagelet by altering the iScript PeopleCode.

If no issues exist for a publication, the text No Issues Available appears.

See Also

Setting Up and Managing Web Magazines