Content spot exits provide the ability to alter the default flow of processing of content spots, making it possible in the runtime environment to override the rule to process, the current user, and the results of rule processing. Instances of the same exit class are instantiated for all content ...

For a rule to be used on your Web site, it must be mapped to an existing content spot. A rule spot mapping is merely an association between a content spot and a rule. Changing the rule that is executed in the runtime environment is as easy as mapping a different rule to a content spot.

When the authoring system is ready, you then import and create the default content for your system. This is often managed by a separate team from the team that builds the web content authoring system.

The security control element is used to set access controls on the item being created.

Your technical architect and information architect need to define what delivery methods are most appropriate for the website you are delivering.

From time to time you may need to reset the web content event log. The event log can be reset only on a syndicator server. Any changes made by resetting the event log are then syndicated to its corresponding subscribers. In most cases you reset the event log on the server you have imported or ...

The security architecture describes what groups are required for your site and what access is required for different groups to the authoring portlet and rendered website.

The Web Content resource collection is installed and configured out of the box. This predefined collection allows you to write rules that select lists of content from IBM® Web Content Manager. Rules specify which Web content to show in a Portal Personalization component in Web Content ...

Image for this section Before building a website, take the time to analyze, plan, and design the entire system that supports the website. You must plan not only the website, but the web content system that manages the website and the infrastructure required for the system. You must also define in ...

You do not have to use the default Web Content Manager page to create content. You can create a new portal page to act as the home page of your authoring system.

Use the Update Security task to apply inherited access permissions and remove existing item access permissions for all items or all items of a given type. This task is useful as a postmigration step, or if you are applying major changes to your inheritance settings.

The content acquisition architecture is used to define what existing content will be imported into your web content system, how it will be imported, and what content will need to be created.

The first step in developing a Personalization solution is to analyze your business conditions and events to determine the users and content to be targeted. The business users and administrators are primarily responsible for this task.

To build a web content system you need to deploy hardware, configure servers, design an authoring system, configure a delivery environment and enable syndication. Get an overview of the steps required to build your web content system. Keep in mind the analysis and design documents developed during ...

When rendering authoring tool components in the Web content viewer, you must account for some changes in the way placeholder tags are specified and in the way users navigate to pages containing authoring tool components. Authoring tasks accessed through a web content viewer, such as inline ...

Add a web content viewer portlet to a page with the site toolbar.

Intelligent pages and site areas are used to define a hierarchical site framework. Content items are saved within the site framework to give your content structure and context.

Use the PortalWCMContextHelper class to determine the web content context from within portal code, such as a theme.

Links to content items can be written as URLs.

You can create the helper classes PortletWCMContextHelper, PortalWCMContextHelper, and WCMContextHelper from the sample code that is provided here to programmatically determine the current web content context. The context indicates a content item or site area that is rendered by a web content ...

Just as you can tag and rate portal resources like pages and portlets, you can also tag and rate content items generated with IBM® Web Content Manager and displayed with the web content viewer. Two plugin components are available to support the tagging and rating of content items in your web ...

Scoping is typically used to filter the tag cloud or ratings overview according to hierarchical metadata attached to the resources being tagged. When applying tagging and rating to web content, you can scope these display components according to authoring template, category, or content item ...

Content spot exits provide the ability to alter the default flow of processing of content spots, making it possible in the runtime environment to override the rule to process, the current user, and the results of rule processing. Instances of the same exit class are instantiated for all content ...

The first step in developing a Personalization solution is to analyze your business conditions and events to determine the users and content to be targeted. The business users and administrators are primarily responsible for this task.

For a rule to be used on your Web site, it must be mapped to an existing content spot. A rule spot mapping is merely an association between a content spot and a rule. Changing the rule that is executed in the runtime environment is as easy as mapping a different rule to a content spot.