You can view a list of existing content groups through the Profile and Content Groups window in the ATG Control Center. To display this window, select Targeting > Profile and Content Groups.
Targeting > Profile and Content Groups window
The window has the following features:
The panel on the left shows a list of folders containing the profile or content groups that have already been created for your Web site. Content groups are identified by the
icon.The panel on the right panel shows all content groups in the selected folder. You can add new groups to this list by clicking the New Group button on the toolbar. For more information, see Creating New Content Groups.
The Name column shows the name of each group in the selected folder. Note that the arrow next to the column title shows how groups are sorted in this list; in this example, the content groups are sorted in reverse alphabetical order by their entry in the Description column. Clicking the column title reverses the sort order.
The Content Source column shows the name of the content repository that stores the items included in this group. (Note: Content repositories are typically set up by the application developers working on your Web site. For more information on how repositories are created, refer to the Repository Guide.)
The Content Type column shows the specific subset of items in the repository to which the content items in this group must belong. (The subset is often used elsewhere in the product for organizational or querying purposes.)
The Description column displays a brief description of each group. If the column is too narrow to display all the text, hold the mouse pointer over a description that you want to read. The description text appears in a blue box.
To display the rules that define the items that are included in a given content group, click the group’s name in the Name column. The following window appears:
Content Group Definition window
The window has the following features:
Include and Exclude buttons, which allow you to add rules that include or exclude specific content items from this group; for example, you could set up a rule that includes any item whose author is “M. Hamilton” or a rule that excludes any item created before January 1, 2003.
A blue definition panel that shows the rules for this content group.
A series of buttons (All Items, Items in Group(s), Items in Folder(s), These Particular Items, Items Whose…) that you use to define the rule selected in the definition panel. Note that more buttons become available as you edit the rule.
