34 About the Admin Window
Along with Developers, you can use the Admin interface to perform tasks and configure elements that help in defining and creating a functional site structure. Use the Admin interface to manage WebCenter Sites content management sites, asset types, users, and features such as publishing, workflow, and security.
Administrators use WebCenter Sites Admin to:
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Create and configure users accounts and profiles, including creating and assigning ACLs and roles to users.
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Configure and implement security for WebCenter Sites, including REST security, encryption key security, and external security.
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Configure and schedule publishing sessions.
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Create and manage workflow processes.
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Enable revision tracking on asset types.
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Enable asset types on content management sites and create start menu items which enable users to work with those asset types in the Contributor interface.
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Configure vanity URLs on a per-asset type basis by creating WebRoots and defining URL patterns.
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Manage the WebCenter Sites caching system (inCache framework).
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Use diagnostic utilities to troubleshoot the WebCenter Sites system.
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Integrate and manage WebCenter Content with WebCenter Sites.
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Configure the Lucene search engine for the Contributor interface.
Developers use WebCenter Sites Admin to:
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Build the data model by creating and defining asset types. For example:
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Creating flex families, which includes defining flex attributes, flex parents, flex parent definitions, flex definitions, flex assets, and flex filters.
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Creating basic asset types and database tables for those basic assets.
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Creating proxy assets
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Create design assets for content management sites, such as Template, CSElement, SiteEntry, Wrapper, Filter, and so on.
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Design attribute editors and configure bundled attribute editors.
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Configure sites for multilingual support.
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Configure the Mobility feature. For example, create device repositories, device groups and suffixes, device assets, site navigations, and mobile templates.