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Managing Sites

There are two types of sites in SiteBuilder:

With the Remote Admin for SiteBuilder 2 module, you can perform a variety of management operations on sites, such as add new trial and regular sites to the SiteBuilder administration panel, edit plans for sites, activate or deactivate them, delete selected sites from the SiteBuilder database, and transfer trial sites to regular ones.

To access site management functions and view a list of sites:

  1. Click Site Management on the SBM main page.
  2. The Site Management page opens, where you can see a list of sites retrieved from the SiteBuilder administration panel. The sites are organized in a list with the following columns:

To add a trial site:

  1. On the Site Management page, click the Add trial site button above the list (you may need to scroll the screen horizontally to see this button).
  2. On General Properties tab, specify the following parameters for the new trial site:
  3. Click the Informational Email tab to specify email settings for sending information about the new site:
  4. Click Save. The new trial site will be added.

To transfer a trial site to a regular one:

  1. On the Site Management page, select one of several sites using check boxes on the left.
  2. Click Trial to Regular at the bottom of the list. The selected sites change their type to regular. Now you can adjust their publishing properties, assign them to resellers, and select business plans for regular sites.

To add a regular site, do one of the following:

To edit properties of a regular site:

  1. On the Site Management page, click the name of a regular site in the list.
  2. On the General Properties tab, edit the parameters of this regular site. The parameters are the same you specified when added a trial site. The only difference is that now you can select any plan available for regular sites. On this page, you can select a template plan for the regular site and then change the plan settings for this particular site on the Plan Management tab (see below).

    Note: When a regular site is created, a copy of the selected Template Plan (the so-called Plan revision or Inherited Plan) is created for this site. This means that any plan changes for a specific site will not affect the parent Template Plan. In the module interfaces, inherited plans are called Plan Revisions.

  3. On the Publish Properties tab, set the publishing properties for this site:
  4. On the Informational Email tab, specify the settings for sending information about the new site:
  5. Click the Plan Properties tab to adjust the plan properties for this site. As noted above, a copy of the parent Template Plan is created for every site. Thus, a site plan inherits all parameters of the parent Template Plan. You can make changes to the plans of specific sites, and these changes will have no effect on the parent Template Plan. Therefore, if you want apply all settings of the template plan to a specific site, leave the site plan unchanged. If you want to edit the properties of a site plan, click the Plan Properties tab.

    At the bottom of the Site Properties tab, you can see subtabs on which you can edit properties of this site plan. On the General subtab, you can view the parent plan for this site plan and the revision number (in the figure below, the parent plan is Standard_Client and the revision number is 0.0). Each time you edit the properties of the site plan, the revision number will increase by 0.1 (i.e., next time the revision number will be 0.1). On this subtab, you can change the number of pages allowed for this site. If you exceed the maximum number of pages allowed by the SiteBuilder license, an error message will be displayed.

    Click the Hosts subtab to select the hosts to which this site can be published. The allowed hosts displayed on this subtab include only the hosts allowed for the parent Template plan. To add a host to the site plan, select it in the list and click Add to Site Plan. To remove a host from the site plan, select it in the list and click Remove from Site Plan.

    Click the Modules subtab to define the modules available for this site. To add a module to the site plan, select it in the list and click Add to Site Plan. To remove a module from the site plan, select it in the list and click Remove from Site Plan.

    Click the Templates subtab to specify the templates included in the site plan. To add a template to the site plan, select it in the list and click Add to Site Plan. To remove a template from the site plan, select it in the list and click Remove from Site Plan.

  6. Click Save. The changes you have just made will be instantly applied to the site.

To allow publishing of a regular site:

  1. On the Site Management page, select one or several sites for which you want to allow publishing.
  2. Click Allow Publish to allow publishing these sites.

    Note: By default, publishing is not available for regular sites. Therefore, you should allow publishing for the site as described above.

See Also

Administering SiteBuilder

Adding Allowed Hosts

Configuring Plans

Managing Resellers