Chapter 11: Building Page Groups

Creating and editing page groups

When you add, modify, or delete portal objects—catalogs, pages, and pages groups—you must update Portal Interface with those changes. See “Updating Portal Interface with changes”.

Portal Interface users can add portlets only to their own user-created pages and page groups.

Creating a page group

To access Web Studio, enter the following URL in your Internet Explorer browser:
```
http://HOSTNAME.PORTALDOMAIN:8080/onepage/index.html
```
For example, if your machine name is “tahiti”, and your portal domain is “sybase.com,” enter:
```
http://tahiti.sybase.com:8080/onepage/index.html
```
If you are running the Demo version of Enterprise Portal, enter:
```
http://demo.sybase.com:4040/onepage/index.html
```
When the Web Studio Login window displays, enter the user name and password for a user with portal administrator privileges.
Select Build | Page Groups.

The Page Group Manager opens. The Status menu allows you to navigate page groups by their status. To see all page groups of a specific status, deselect the Show Active Only check box.
Click New. The Page Group Builder opens.
Click Add to begin adding pages to the page group. To eliminate a page from the page group, select the page and click Remove.

A new Search window opens. You can search for pages by page name, page owner, and date of last modification. To locate a page, enter search criteria and click Search.
Select the page you want to add, then click Add.

You can select multiple pages by holding down the Ctrl key while selecting page names.

The Search window closes, and the pages you selected appear in the Page Group Builder.
Click Save As.
When the Save Page Group window appears, complete these fields:
- Name – enter a name for the page group.
- Resource – displays the resource associated with the user.
- Type – select the page group type. Page groups have two types: Default and Guest. Default is for registered portal users; Guest is for guests.
  
  You can add pages only to page groups of an identical type; for example, you can add guest pages only to a Guest page group.
  
  Guest and Default pages cannot be updated in the Page Manager when the global.properties.xml page.group property is set to “on,” and must be updated by changing the guest and default page groups.
- Active – indicate whether the page group is active. Selecting the Active check box makes the page group active for the roles you select, after you approve the page group.
- Specific Number of Frames – specify the number of frames that should be used to render the pages of the page group. The default value is the number of pages that you added to the page group. For more information, see “Page groups, page numbers, and <IFRAME>”.
- Initial on Load – select this option to load all the portlets on the different <IFRAMES> the first time a user logs in. This causes the listeners to register and receive events immediately. See “Page groups, page numbers, and <IFRAME>” for more information.
- Navigation Style – select a navigation style. Navigation styles lets you assign a custom navigation type to the page group, such as navigation settings for a PocketPC. For more information about navigation settings, see “Choosing a navigation style”.
- Roles – assign roles to the page group. When you assign a user role to a page group, all users assigned that role can see the page group.
  
  If a page in a page group is not assigned a role that is assigned to the group, the page does not display to users without the assigned role.
Click OK to save the page group.
Select Status | New in the Page Group Manager.

Right-click the page group you created and select Status | Approved to make the page group available.

Editing page group contents and properties

You can add or remove pages from a page group, or modify a group’s properties after you create it.

Log in to Web Studio as a user with administrator privileges.
Select Build | Page Groups. The Page Group Manager appears.
Navigate the Status menu to find the page group whose contents you want to edit, select the page group in the detail view and click Edit.
When the Page Group Builder displays, click Add to begin adding pages to the page group. A Search window opens. You can search for pages by page name, page owner, and date of last modification. To locate a page, enter search criteria and click Search.
Select the page you want to add, then click Add.

You can select multiple pages by holding down the Ctrl key while selecting page names.

The Search window closes, and the pages you selected appear in the Page Group Builder.
To eliminate a page from the page group, select the page in the Page Group Builder and click Remove. Click Save to save your changes.
To edit a page group’s properties, right-click the page group in the detail view and select Properties. The Page Group Properties window appears. Follow the instructions in “Creating a page group” to change the page group properties. Click OK when to finish and save your changes.

Disabling a page group

To disable a page group and prevent it from showing in Portal Interface:

Log in to Web Studio as a user with administrator privileges.
Select Build | Page Groups. The Page Group Manager appears.
Navigate the Status menu to find the page group that you want to disable.
Right-click the page group in the detail view and select Properties.
When the Page Group Properties window displays, deselect the Active option, then click OK.
When the confirmation that the page group was saved displays, click OK.

Marking a page group as deleted

Select the page group’s current status from the Page Group Manager Status menu to display the listing in the detail view.
Right-click the listing in the detail view, select Status from the pop-up, then select Deleted.

The page group listing moves to the Deleted status in the detail view; however the page is not removed from the database.
To change the page group’s status once it has been marked as deleted, select Deleted from the Page Group Manager Status menu.
Right-click the page group listing in the detail view, select Status from the pop-up, then select any status that displays to recover the page group.

The page group moves to the detail view of the status you selected.

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