Managing pages

Manage Pages allows you to create, edit, activate, order, and delete pages as well as external Web pages and labels. Available tasks depend on which item is selected. Each page can contain multiple pages. All pages on which you have the User or greater role are displayed in a navigation menu. You must expand pages to access nested pages. The options that you see are dependent upon your access level.

Prerequisites
Tuning for many pages

About this task

The Manage Pages portlet allows you to perform the following tasks:
  • Create, reorder, delete, and edit the properties of pages, labels, and URLs
  • Reorder pages, labels, and URLs
  • Assign access to pages, labels, and URLs
  • Move pages to a new location in the portal hierarchy

Both administrators and users with appropriate access can create and delete pages. Users can only delete the pages they create or the pages for which they have at least Manager access. User can create pages from the site toolbar.

Note: When creating a URL mapping or creating or modifying a page, make sure that URL mappings and friendly URLs in your portal do not match, partially overlap, or otherwise interfere with each other. For example, do not use strings such as home, ibm, ibm.com, and do not use strings that have been used as URL mappings or friendly URLs in your portal already. Otherwise infinite browser redirect loops might occur, sometimes without an error message. To determine such strings, create an export from your portal by using the XML configuration interface and scan the exported XML result output file for the string that you want to use for your URL mapping or for your friendly URL. By default, the portal ensures that the friendly URL name that you enter is unique. However, this enforcement does not include derived pages with an inherited friendly name and siblings that are moved in by a personalization rule.
  • Pages and page types: shared, derived, and hidden pages
    Understanding the behavior of shared pages, derived pages, and hidden pages, and the differences between them can help you manage pages and create the correct type of page for your needs.
  • Selecting pages
    Pages that you can modify in Manage Pages appear as links in a table. By clicking a link to select a page, you can navigate to other nested pages to perform page tasks. You can also select labels and URLs in Manage Pages.
  • Creating pages using the Manage Pages portlet
    A page displays content, such as portlets and other pages, in a single area. By creating pages, you can organize your information and add new navigational elements to the site.
  • Creating pages from a template using the Manage Pages portlet
    Create new pages quickly by using a page template. Pages created from page templates contain pre-configured portlets and settings.
  • Creating shared pages
    Use the Manage Pages portlet to set up the original page to be shared.
  • Creating derived pages
    A page can be set to reference an existing page only during page creation.
  • Creating a label
    Labels act as separators that organize groups of pages and URLs into categories. When you add a separator on the site, you must decide between creating a label or a page. You create a label instead of a page when you are only seeking an organizational solution and do not need to display content.
  • Creating a URL
    You can create URLs to add external URLs to your portal navigation.
  • Using friendly URLs
    You can associate friendly URLs with portal pages and labels. You and your users can use these friendly URLs to access specific portal pages or labels by using a human readable path, which is easy to remember.
  • Creating page templates
    To simplify the creation of pages, define pre-configured pages that you can use as templates when you create new pages.
  • Editing pages, labels, and URLs
    You can edit the properties of existing pages, labels, and URLs to modify settings or add new settings in Page Properties. For example, you can change the name, navigational layout, and theme of a page from Page Properties.
  • Searching pages
    By selecting a search type in Manage Pages, you can quickly locate and work with pages, labels, or URLs.
  • Ordering pages, labels, and URLs
    When you reorder items listed in Manage Pages, you are changing the order of pages, labels, and URLs on the site. You are also changing the order of entries in the main menu.
  • Moving pages and labels
    You can move a page and its children to another location in the portal hierarchy from Manage Pages.
  • Assigning access to pages, labels, and URLs
    Set permissions on portal resources, such as pages, labels, and URLs, from the Administration section.
  • Activating or deactivating a page, label, or URL
    You can toggle pages, labels, and URLs to be active or inactive. Users cannot access an inactive resource.
  • Deleting pages, labels, and URLs
    By deleting pages, labels, and URLs, you can remove content and change the site navigation.
  • Exporting pages and labels
    The Export option allows you to create an XML file that can be imported into another portal by using the XML configuration interface. The page or label and its child nodes will be exported.
  • Setting up Manage Pages
    You can configure default settings for Manage Pages. You can set these defaults on a global scale, applying to all instances of a page or for individual pages. This depends on the option you can select from the menu.
  • Task refresh-page-layout
    Use this configuration task to refresh the page layout for all pages assigned a given page layout template.
  • Field descriptions for the Manage Pages portlet
    Learn more about the fields that are provided with the user interface. These fields appear under the Edit Shared Settings and Configure menus for the Manage Pages portlet.
  • Customizing pages
    The page customizer contains portlets for editing the layout, content, and appearance of pages. It also provides the Wires portlet, which allows users to set up connections between cooperative portlets on a page, and the Locks portlet, which allows users to lock and unlock containers and container content. You can configure the settings for these portlets to show a certain set of functions, restricting basic users from performing more advanced tasks.
  • Parent topic: Administering