Managed pages

Managed pages streamline site management in your portal by simplifying how you create pages and add content. Because page information and content are stored in web content libraries, you can more easily coordinate and publish changes with syndication.

Managed pages are portal pages that are stored in IBM® Web Content Manager. By managing portal pages from within Web Content Manager, you can apply features like workflow, version control, and syndication to portal pages.

When you perform a new installation of IBM WebSphere® Portal Express®, managed pages are enabled by default. However, if you migrate from an earlier version or previously disabled the feature, ensure that managed pages are enabled, as described in Configuring managed pages.

WebSphere Portal Express artifacts that you can administer by managed pages
You can manage all types of portal pages, including pages that use the WebSphere Portal 8.0 theme, dynamic pages, and static pages.
Drafts and projects for changes to managed pages
You can create, update, and approve pages in a draft state, without affecting the published site. When working with managed pages, you can edit pages as drafts, manage drafts with approval workflow, and then syndicate to publish changes.
Scope of edits for managed pages
When you edit managed pages in a project, you use workflow for approving changes before publishing them until they are approved. If you edit ages without selecting a project, your changes are published immediately.
Edit mode and administration pages
Because the administration pages are not intended to be edited, those pages are excluded from the edit mode features provided by the site toolbar.
Managed pages and site management
Using managed pages is the preferred method for site management. The Resource Manager portlet is no longer supported in Version 8.0.
Managed pages and the authoring portlet
When you create a managed page in the portal, a corresponding page item is created in the Portal Site library. The page items are represented as portal page site areas in the web content library.
System content associations
System content associations are used to associate a portal page with its corresponding artifacts in IBM Web Content Manager. A system content association is an extension of the standard content association.
Best practices for managed pages
Use these tips and guidelines to develop and deploy managed pages more effectively.
Troubleshooting managed pages
When using managed pages, you might encounter problems that are related to projects, access rights, or other issues.
Known issues for managed pages
You can review known issues for managed pages.

Parent topic: Setting up a portal site