Understanding Site Management
This chapter provides an overview of PeopleSoft Applications Portal Site Management.
Understanding Site Management
Site Management facilitates the creation and management of multiple sites from within one installation of PeopleSoft Applications Portal. These sites can provide content to targeted audiences or focused content to the general PeopleSoft Applications Portal audience. Each site is managed separately and may have its own branding. For example, an enterprise can create a site for each division or department with unique branding themes, navigation, and content, and with their own site administrators and publishers.
The following graphic illustrates the Site Management process flow.
Site Management flow
The functions of Site Management can be performed by users or roles appointed by the portal administrator.
A branding administrator creates branding theme elements that can be used on sites.
A portal administrator creates a site, authorizes site branding, appoints site administrators, and selects templates and pagelets available to the site.
A site administrator can override branding themes (if authorized), appoint site publishers and viewers, set default security and templates, and configure the site's front page.
A site publisher can manage site navigation and content.
A site viewer can view the site.
Using Portal Features on Sites
This section describes which features of PeopleSoft Applications Portal are available for use on sites. We also indicate whether the features available on sites can be configured uniquely for that site, or must be shared across the entire PeopleSoft Applications Portal.
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Feature |
Site Specific Configuration? |
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Branding |
Yes |
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Context Manager: Content Ratings |
Yes |
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Context Manager: Related Contacts |
Yes |
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Context Manager: Related Discussions |
Yes |
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Context Manager: Related Information |
Yes |
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Context Manager: Related Links |
Yes |
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Context Manager: Related Resources |
Yes |
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Discussion Forums |
Yes |
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Email pagelet and Calendar Events pagelet |
No |
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External News pagelets |
No |
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Inquire Menu Item |
Yes |
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Tasks pagelet |
No |
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Internet pagelets (weather, stock, and so forth) |
No |
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Language Selection pagelet |
No |
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User Logon Statistics pagelet |
No |
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Manage Navigation |
Yes |
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Managed Content |
Yes |
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My Links |
Yes |
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News Publications (and News Publication pagelets) |
Yes, with appropriate security. |
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Pagelet Wizard |
Yes—Pagelet definitions are not site specific, but pagelets can be registered to specific sites. |
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Portal Registry (Favorites, tabs, pagelets, content references, and so forth.) |
Yes |
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Portal Options |
No—Not delivered to sites by default. |
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Resource Finder |
No |
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Saved Searches |
No |
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Search Results |
Yes—Results can either be local or include all sites in the portal. |
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Navigation Collections |
Yes |
|
Site Manager Center |
Yes |