In previous releases of Enterprise Portal, you could not define page groups in Portal Studio. In Enterprise Portal 6.0, you can work with system page groups within Portal Studio. Portal Interface users can create their own page groups to contain the pages they create, or catalog pages. The page groups defined within Portal Studio can be exported and subsequently imported to Portal Interface. No modifications can be made to the page groups created under the Portal Interface user’s view derived from the system page groups.
To migrate a Portal that is in Page Mode requires the Portal administrator to organize all the available default pages into page groups using Portal Studio. These page groups should be assigned roles appropriate to the pages they hold.
Migrating to page group mode if you do not use
a separate database for development and production
Start Portal Studio using the following URL, substituting your host name and domain:
http://$HOSTNAME.$PORTALDOMAIN:8080/onepage/index.html
For example, if your machine name is “labnt”, and your portal domain is sybase.com, you enter:
http://labnt.sybase.com:8080/onepage/index.html
Point Portal Studio to the database Portal Interface uses. Even though the Portal is running in page mode, the Studio can create and edit page groups.
Migrating to page group mode in a development
environment separate from the production Portal
Run the development Portal with page group mode turned on.
Organize related default pages into appropriate page groups and issue an update user operation.
Log in to the development Portal and preview the page groups the Portal Interface users see. When the page group creation process is complete, export the newly created page groups and use this XML file for importing to the production Portal.
During the update process, existing Portal Interface users see:
All exported page groups that the user has permission for are created as a page group bearing the name of the page group. All pages within the page group that the user has permission for are created as pages within the page group.
All default pages that the user has within the current set of page groups are removed. These page groups are tagged as user page groups, and they can only contain catalog or user-created pages.
