You use the User Interface Options section
to define the user interface options of an authoring portlet.
- Select a visibility option for the navigation bar. This
is the section of the authoring portlet that displays navigational
links to the item views, group by views, and personal views.
- Show
- If this option is selected, the navigation bar is visible when
the home page, launch page, or item forms are displayed.
- Hide
- If this option is selected, the navigation bar is hidden when
the home page, launch page, or item forms are displayed. This is the
recommended option for users who only need to perform basic web content
management tasks.
- Hide when home page or launch page is open
- If this option is selected, the navigation bar is hidden when
the home page or launch page is displayed, but is visible when the
item forms are displayed. This means that the initial interface is
made simpler, while still having the navigation bar available in other
views. This is the recommended option for users who need to perform
more complex web content management tasks.
Note: The navigation bar is always displayed when using
the library explorer.
- Select a default view:
- Basic Home Page
- If selected, the basic home page is displayed when you first access
the authoring portlet. The basic home page is designed for content
authors who only need to create content items and other simple item
types, and who would not usually need access to the more advanced
library explorer. The basic home page will allow the creation of content
using up to six different authoring templates. The authoring templates
displayed are the favorites of the current user, and the most recently
used by the current user.
You can define a set of authoring templates
to display on the home page when a user does not have any favorites
or recently used items. To do this, add the
wcm.authoringui.homePageTemplates parameter
to the authoring options in the
WCM WCMConfigService service
using the
IBM® WebSphere® Application
Server administration
console. The paths of the templates should be specified, separated
by colons. For example:
Library 1/Template Name:Library 2/folder/Template Name 2:Library 3/Template Name 3
- Home Page
- If selected, the standard home page is displayed when you first
access the authoring portlet. One section of the home page is used
to create items and open their favorite locations. Another section
of the home page is used to view recent activity. This interface is
designed for content authors who need to complete tasks such as creating
content, editing their draft content and approving and declining content,
but who would not usually need access to the more advanced library
explorer.
- Launch page
- If you have created a custom launch page to use in place of the
default user interface, select Launch Page.
For example, file.jsp.
A custom launch page is
a JSP file and must be stored in the WAR file directory for the Authoring
portlet. was_profile_root/installedApps/cellname/PA_WCM_Authoring_UI.ear/ilwwcm-authoring.war/jsp/html,
where cellname is unique to your installation.
Enter the name of the JSP file in the custom launch page field.
- Library Explorer
- To use the default user interface, select Library Explorer.
- Select Hide the open item and view lists to
hide these functions from users in the authoring portlet.
- To improve performance you can limit the number of tasks
a user can open at the same time in the authoring portlet by entering
a number in the Maximum open tasks per Authoring Portlet
instance field.
- To improve performance you can limit the number of items
a user can select in an index at the same time in the authoring portlet
by entering a number in the Maximum selected items per
action before warning and Maximum selected
items per action before denying the action fields.
- The number of rows that appear in an index is defined in
the Maximum rows per table field. If left blank,
this defaults to 10. A maximum of 500 rows can set.
- To enable People Awareness, select Enable people
awareness. People Awareness allows you to select user
names that appear in views and forms within the Authoring Portlet,
and send those users an email or Sametime message.
- Select the default display mode of the library explorer.
- List view mode:
- This mode only displays lists of items as you browse a library.
- Tree view mode:
- This mode displays both lists of items plus a navigational tree
as you browse a library.