Understanding Site Creation and Management

The Site Manager Center page consolidates access to the activities required to create and manage sites. Enterprises that require multiple sites within their main portal can use the Site Management tools to quickly create and configure subsites to their portal. These sites inherit characteristics from the main portal, but maintain their own navigation. Sites can also employ branding specifically designed to meet the site's requirements.

Site Management enables a portal administrator to create new sites that inherit infrastructure properties of the sponsor portal. The portal administrator initially specifies site branding, page templates, and pagelets, and assigns site administrators. Subsequent site management can be delegated to site administrators who set publishing defaults and lay out the site’s homepage. The site administrator also manages security for site content publishers and site viewers.

See the product documentation for PeopleSoft Portal Solutions 9.1 Revision 2 Installation, “Creating Content Provider Navigation Collections.”

Create and maintain a site by:

  1. Creating a new site definition.

    A portal administrator normally defines portal sites.

    or:

  2. Updating an existing site definition.

    A portal administrator normally manages portal sites.

  3. Selecting from available branding themes.

    A branding administrator normally defines branding themes.

Administer a site by:

  1. Setting site security.

  2. Setting publishing defaults.

  3. Configuring the site homepage.

A site administrator normally administers site navigation.

Publish content to a site by:

  1. Managing site navigation.

  2. Updating homepage content.

If you choose a site administration or management task within the main portal, it takes effect for the portal. To perform administration or to manage navigation for a site, you must first access the site. To do this, select Go to Site on the Manage Sites page and then navigate to the task you want to perform. Within a site, only site administration and site navigation management tasks will be available.