Understanding Web Magazine

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:

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Example of a web magazine cover page.

This example illustrates the information hierarchy in a Web Magazine.

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

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:

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Folder Security page.

See PeopleTools: Security Administration, “Setting Up Roles” for more information about web magazine viewing security.

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